Subject: bug#10634: `forward-list' scan error

From: Marcin Borkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:02:11 +0100

On 2012-01-28, at 23:20, Raffaele Ricciardi <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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

Hi all,

while I can easily reproduce this on current Emacs (25.1.50.1), I'm not
sure whether this is really a bug.  (Maybe it is a bug in the
docstring?)

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl/en