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Re: Error: End of file during parsing
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: Error: End of file during parsing |
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Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:06:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
> If a file contains N+1 open parens and N closing parens, Emacs
> displays an "End of file during parsing" error message. It could be a
> bit smarter, though: if one assumes that the file is properly
> indented, which is usually the case, whenever a parenthesis is read in
> column 1, the number of opening and closing parens must match. IOW,
> Emacs could point to the first such place where this is not the case.
> Such a hint would not be 100% accurate, but would be helpful.
Would be helpful, yes. I'm not sure about the usually intact
indentation, though: sometimes when that happened to me indentation of
other top-level expressions had been messed up. Can happen very quickly
once such an accident occurred.
Anyway - does that mean you think the compiler should do this?
Michael.
Re: Error: End of file during parsing, Christopher M. Miles, 2022/09/28
Re: Error: End of file during parsing, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/28