Re: catching parenthesis errors in elisp

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> Im hacking on a 700 line elisp function.
> While doing some (fairly mechanical) cut-paste operations it looks
> like either Ive got a parenthesis or a quote (most likely double quote
> but could also be single quote) error.
>
> Any suggestions on how to catch such errors?

1- use M-x check-parens RET once you've botched the code.

2- indent your whole buffer:  C-x h M-q C-M-\
   where you see strange indentation is a hint about wrong parentheses.

3- install and use paredit-mode to avoid problems in the first place.
   http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit.el


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__Pascal Bourguignon__