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23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#1187: marked as done (23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid
 read syntax)

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Your message dated Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:46:05 -0400
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and subject line Re: bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax
has caused the Emacs bug report #1187,
regarding 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax
to be marked as done.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:22:45 -0700

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Library vline.el can be read fine in Emacs 22, but Emacs 23 raises an
error, saying Invalid read syntax: "?".
 

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-10-03 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'
 
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: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
 
Major mode: Emacs-Lisp
 
Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
 
Recent input:
C-x C-f c o n r r <backspace> <backspace> t r i b / 
v l i n e <tab> <return> M-x l o a d - f <return> <return> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> 
<send-emacs-bug-report>
 
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Loading c:/drews-lisp-20/CONTRIB/vline.el (source)...
load-with-code-conversion: Invalid read syntax: "?"

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1187-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lawrence Mitchell <wence <at> gmx.li>
Subject: Re: bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:46:05 -0400

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/download/vline.el contains
non-ascii chars, but does not contain any coding tag, so depending on
your coding settings, it will decode it in different ways, some of which
will lead to load-time errors, others to incorrect behavior.
There's nothing for Emacs to do here.
Such uses are OK for a file you wrote for your own use, but for
distribution to people who may use other locales, it's not.


        Stefan

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