GNU bug report logs - #11321
24.0.95; forward-sexp fails on string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in versions 24.2, 24.0.95

Fixed in version 24.3

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: 11321 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11321: 24.0.95; forward-sexp fails on string
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:12:07 +0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
 1. Emacs -Q
 2. decompress and open the attached file
 3. M-: (goto-char 2345) which should move point to the beginning of a
    triple quote string in python.
 4. C-M-f

,----
| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses" 2345 70003)
|   scan-sexps(2345 1)
|   forward-sexp(1)
|   call-interactively(forward-sexp nil nil)
`----

 5. C-f C-f, so that you are on the last "
 6. C-M-f
 7. M-: (goto-char 2345)
 8. C-M-f

This time it succeeds.

Could someone explain what is going on? Is this a bug? Thanks.

Leo

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