1. Emacs -Q 2. decompress and open the attached file 3. M-: (goto-char 2345) which should move point to the beginning of a triple quote string in python. 4. C-M-f ,---- | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses" 2345 70003) | scan-sexps(2345 1) | forward-sexp(1) | call-interactively(forward-sexp nil nil) `---- 5. C-f C-f, so that you are on the last " 6. C-M-f 7. M-: (goto-char 2345) 8. C-M-f This time it succeeds. Could someone explain what is going on? Is this a bug? Thanks. Leo