From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: check-parens Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 01:19:24 +1000 Message-ID: References: <680bdd7e-09c2-dbbe-803c-f8fc555f5b91@easy-emacs.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="163109"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (berkeley-unix) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 03 17:20:37 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i5Abl-000gFB-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:20:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47342 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i5Abk-0003Mx-E4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2019 11:20:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i5Aba-0003Mr-R7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2019 11:20:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i5AbZ-0002M1-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2019 11:20:26 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:38422 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i5AbZ-0002JV-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2019 11:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i5AbQ-000fo0-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:20:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:RJ9uernGhVwOiWkurE+V9wReDvY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121433 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> the following snippet errors: >> >> (member CHAR (list ?r ?)) > > Of course, a paren is missing. > >> but check-parens doesn't signal it. > > Indeed, but the byte-compiler does: > > foo.el:5:1:Warning: unescaped character literals `?)' detected, > `?\)' expected! > >> Worth a bug-report? > > Probably not: it's a known problem. Would be nice for the cgit/emacs.git webpage to have a section listing vintage bugs and bugs on low hanging fruit with notes collected from visitors. -- © 2019 VanL gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 'If the bug bites don't fight it.' - Nancy S. Steinhardt