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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | bug#20852: 24.3; update-file-autoloads doesn't accept unescaped parenthesis character literal |
| Date: | Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:24:49 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Create an Elisp file such as
> (defvar foo ?()
> and try to run `update-file-autoloads' on it. This will fail with an
> unbalanced parenthesis error. However, this is valid (albeit
> discouraged) Elisp code.
Yes: don't do that. Use (defvar foo ?\() instead.
This same error will appear during interactive editing of that code.
Stefan
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