bug#1907: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry

bug#1907: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry

[Leo]

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

In BibTeX-mode run C-c C-c on this entry to get the backtrace.

@misc{dingle1976qeh,
  title={{Quantum effects in heterostructure lasers}},
  author={Dingle, R. and Henry, C.H.},
  year={1976},
  month=sep # "~21",
  publisher={Google Patents},
  note={US Patent 3,982,207}
}

The bib entry can also be obtained from the following link
http://scholar.google.com/scholar.bib?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&output=search&q=info:O42N6xYt09QJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&oe=ASCII&oi=citation

Backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses" 143 210)
  scan-sexps(143 1)
  forward-sexp(1)
  bibtex-parse-field-string()
  bibtex-parse-field-text()
  bibtex-parse-association(bibtex-parse-field-name bibtex-parse-field-text)
  bibtex-parse-field()
  bibtex-valid-entry(t)
  bibtex-end-of-entry()
  bibtex-fill-entry()
  bibtex-format-entry()
  (cond ((bibtex-string= entry-type "preamble") (error "No clean up of @Preamble entries")) ((bibtex-string= entry-type "string") (setq entry-type ...)) (t (bibtex-format-entry)))
  (let ((case-fold-search t) (start ...) (_ ...) (entry-type ...) (key ...)) (cond (... ...) (... ...) (t ...)) (when (or new-key ...) (setq key ...) (if ... ...) (save-excursion ... ... ...)) (unless called-by-reformat (let* ... ... ... ... ...) (if bibtex-clean-entry-hook ...)))
  bibtex-clean-entry(nil)
  call-interactively(bibtex-clean-entry nil nil)

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please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-12-14 on BREPNB
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENG
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: BibTeX

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  dired-omit-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
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bug#1907: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry

[Chong Yidong]

Hi Roland, could you take a look at this bug report?

Thanks.


Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:

> In BibTeX-mode run C-c C-c on this entry to get the backtrace.
>
> @misc{dingle1976qeh,
>   title={{Quantum effects in heterostructure lasers}},
>   author={Dingle, R. and Henry, C.H.},
>   year={1976},
>   month=sep # "~21",
>   publisher={Google Patents},
>   note={US Patent 3,982,207}
> }
>
> The bib entry can also be obtained from the following link
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar.bib?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&output=search&q=info:O42N6xYt09QJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&oe=ASCII&oi=citation
>
> Backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses" 143
> 210)
>   scan-sexps(143 1)
>   forward-sexp(1)
>   bibtex-parse-field-string()
>   bibtex-parse-field-text()
>   bibtex-parse-association(bibtex-parse-field-name
>   bibtex-parse-field-text)
>   bibtex-parse-field()
>   bibtex-valid-entry(t)
>   bibtex-end-of-entry()
>   bibtex-fill-entry()
>   bibtex-format-entry()
>   (cond ((bibtex-string= entry-type "preamble") (error "No clean up of
>   @Preamble entries")) ((bibtex-string= entry-type "string") (setq
>   entry-type ...)) (t (bibtex-format-entry)))
>   (let ((case-fold-search t) (start ...) (_ ...) (entry-type ...) (key
>   ...)) (cond (... ...) (... ...) (t ...)) (when (or new-key ...) (setq
>   key ...) (if ... ...) (save-excursion ... ... ...)) (unless
>   called-by-reformat (let* ... ... ... ... ...) (if
>   bibtex-clean-entry-hook ...)))
>   bibtex-clean-entry(nil)
>   call-interactively(bibtex-clean-entry nil nil)

bug#1907: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry

[Glenn Morris]

I can't reproduce this in the current cvs started with -Q.

bug#1907: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry

[Leo]

On 2009-01-15 14:09 +0000, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Hi Roland, could you take a look at this bug report?
>
> Thanks.
[...]

On 2009-01-15 23:17 +0000, Glenn Morris wrote:
> I can't reproduce this in the current cvs started with -Q.

Please set the following:

(setq bibtex-entry-format
      (append '(opts-or-alts required-fields numerical-fields)
              '(whitespace realign delimiters unify-case)))

I can reproduce this with GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of
2008-12-14 on BREPNB.

-- 
.:  Leo  :.  [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ]  .: I use Emacs :.

bug#1907: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry

[Glenn Morris]

Leo wrote (on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 at 01:45 +0000):

> Please set the following:

In future, please provide all the relevant information in the initial report.

This usually a complete, concise recipe starting from emacs -Q:


emacs -Q --eval "(setq bibtex-entry-format '(delimiters))" file.bib

where file.bib contains:

@misc{foo,
  month=sep # "~21",
}

bug#1907: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry

[Roland Winkler]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> In BibTeX-mode run C-c C-c on this entry to get the backtrace.
>
> @misc{dingle1976qeh,
>   title={{Quantum effects in heterostructure lasers}},
>   author={Dingle, R. and Henry, C.H.},
>   year={1976},
>   month=sep # "~21",
>   publisher={Google Patents},
>   note={US Patent 3,982,207}
> }

I've installed a patch that should handle properly concatenated
fields like the above month field. Does it work for you?

Thanks,

Roland

bug#1907: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry

[Leo]

On 2009-01-16 14:30 +0000, Roland Winkler wrote:
> Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In BibTeX-mode run C-c C-c on this entry to get the backtrace.
>>
>> @misc{dingle1976qeh,
>
>>   title={{Quantum effects in heterostructure lasers}},
>>   author={Dingle, R. and Henry, C.H.},
>>   year={1976},
>>   month=sep # "~21",
>>   publisher={Google Patents},
>>   note={US Patent 3,982,207}
>> }
>
> I've installed a patch that should handle properly concatenated
> fields like the above month field. Does it work for you?

Yes. Thank you for the fix.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Roland

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