Subject: `forward-list' scan error

From: Raffaele Ricciardi <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:20:26 +0000

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':
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Error: "forward-list: Scan error: "Containing expression ends 
prematurely", 336, 336"

How to reproduce it:
- emacs -Q
- switch to *scratch*
- in the following code:

(abc (def) (ghi) lmn)

`forward-list' fails in different positions, for instance (| is point):

(abc (|d|e|f|) (ghi) lmn)

Software: GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 
2011-12-10 on debian

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If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
/home/lele/bin/emacs/emacs-23.3b/share/emacs/23.3/etc/DEBUG.

In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
  of 2011-12-10 on debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10707000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/lele/bin/emacs/emacs-23.3b''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
m n <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> M-x M-p <return> <right> <right>
M-x M-p <return> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
M-x M-p <return> M-x M-p <return> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> M-x M-p <return> <left> <left>
M-x M-p <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <double-drag-mouse-1>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar>
<copy> <help-echo> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <up> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <delete>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <help-echo>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <backspace>
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-x M-p <return>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> M-x
M-p <return> <left> <left> M-x M-p <return> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> M-x M-p <return>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> M-x M-p <return> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> M-x M-p <return>
<left> <left> <left> <left> M-x M-p <return> <right>
M-x M-p <return> <right> M-x M-p <return> <right> M-x
M-p <return> <right> M-x M-p <return> C-h C-g M-x e
m a a <backspace> c - - <backspace> <backspace> s -
v e r s i o n <return> C-h e <next> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar>
<copy> <help-echo> C-h f f o r w a r d - l i s t <return>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up>
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <buffer> C-c <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <left> i <return> <backspace> <backspace>
SPC z z z <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
M-x M-p M-p <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
forward-list: Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 498, 499
forward-list: Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 503, 
504 [2 times]
Making completion list...
Quit
forward-list: Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 498, 
499 [3 times]
forward-list: Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 201, 
202 [5 times]
GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2011-12-10 
on debian
uncompressing lisp.el.gz...done
Note: file is write protected
forward-list: Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 205, 206

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail regexp-opt ecomplete rfc822 mml
mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse
rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util
netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock
sha1 hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug jka-compr find-func help-fns
help-mode easymenu view tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe
lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham
georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic
indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple
abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties
overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
system-font-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)