Bug in emacs/w3-el?
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Peter Maydell <maydell@tao-group.com> has had an unusual problem with
an interaction between Emacs and w3-el that has been in the bug system
for much too long. I've finally decided that I want to nail it to the
wall for good. But before I can do that I need to be able to
reproduce it somewhere.
I've copied Peter's initial message (Bug#27532) below. I'd appreciate
if any Debian developer who can reproduce this problem would let me
know, especially if you are willing to give me an account on your
system temporarily for debugging purposes.
Peter says that this bug persists with recent versions of Emacs and
w3-el, so that eliminates one possible fix.
Thanks in advance,
Ben.
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To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: w3-el won't run: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 346, 4119
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 19:47:20 +0100
From: Peter Maydell <maydell@tao.co.uk>
Message-Id: <E0zQc8m-00013n-00@zircon.tao.co.uk>
Package: w3-el
Version: 4.0pre.23-1
(also version 4.0pre14-5, see below)
I installed w3-el successfully, but when I load emacs and type
'M-x w3' it gives the error
'Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 346, 4119' in the minibuffer.
On trying a purge and reinstall (this time of 4.0pre14-5)
I noticed the following compile warning,
which might or might not be related:
WIDGETDIR=/usr/share/emacs/20.2/lisp/ emacs20 -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./docomp.el -l ./w3-vars.el -f batch-byte-compile w3-parse.el
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3-el/lisp/w3-parse.el:
** reference to free variable w3-invalid-sgml-char-replacement
Wrote /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3-el/lisp/w3-parse.elc
The *Messages* buffer contains the following:
---begin buffer---
Loading 00debian-vars (compiled)...
Loading 00debian-vars (compiled)...done
Loading 50w3...
Loading 50w3...done
Loading paren (compiled)...
Loading cus-face (compiled)...
Loading cus-face (compiled)...done
Loading paren (compiled)...done
Loading timer (compiled)...
Loading timer (compiled)...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading w3-el/w3 (compiled)...
Loading backquote (compiled)...
Loading backquote (compiled)...done
Loading cus-edit (compiled)...
Loading wid-browse (compiled)...
Loading wid-browse (compiled)...done
Loading cus-edit (compiled)...done
Loading w3-el/w3 (compiled)...done
Loading url-auth (compiled)...
Loading url-auth (compiled)...done
Loading url-http (compiled)...
Loading url-http (compiled)...done
Loading cl-extra (compiled)...
Loading cl-extra (compiled)...done
Loading url-cache (compiled)...
Loading url-cache (compiled)...done
Loading url-file (compiled)...
Loading url-file (compiled)...done
Mark set
Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 346, 4119
---end buffer---
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