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bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax
From: |
Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: |
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:58:17 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:30:24 +0100
>> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
>>
>> Drew Adams wrote:
>>> Library vline.el can be read fine in Emacs 22, but Emacs 23 raises an
>>> error, saying Invalid read syntax: "?".
>> The following sequence of events works for me in
>>
>> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll
>> bars) of 2008-10-07 on lamacq.ph.ed.ac.uk
>>
>> $ wget http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/download/vline.el \
>> -O /tmp/vline.el
>>
>> $ LANG=C emacs -Q --eval '(load-file "/tmp/vline.el")'
>> LANG=C so that current-language-environment is "ASCII"
>> and default-buffer-file-coding-system is nil.
>>
>> Successfully prints:
>> Loading /tmp/vline.el (source)...done
>
> For me, the file vline.el downloaded from the above address loads
> successfully even without setting LANG to "C". Just a simple "C-x
> C-f" works and doesn't throw any errors.
>
> Either the version of vline.el Drew used is different, or something
> else is at work here. Drew, are you using the patched EmacsW32 binary
> produced by Lennart? If so, perhaps it's something that is being
> triggered by the patches. Or maybe something in Drew's .emacs
> customizations?
I think Drew is using the unpatched version. And I can see this problem
with both the unpatched and the patched version.
However there might be a misunderstanding. There is no error while
reading vline.el. The error comes when I do eval-buffer.
- bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, (continued)
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/17
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Lawrence Mitchell, 2008/10/17
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax,
Lennart Borgman (gmail) <=
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Drew Adams, 2008/10/17
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/17
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Drew Adams, 2008/10/17
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/17
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Kenichi Handa, 2008/10/20
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/20
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Kenichi Handa, 2008/10/20
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Drew Adams, 2008/10/21
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Lawrence Mitchell, 2008/10/17
bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax, Drew Adams, 2008/10/17