Subject: bug#16985: indent-for-tab-command error messages could mention line numbers

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:43:00 -0400

> TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command indent-for-tab-command,
> Its messages,
> forward-sexp: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 1970, 1
> would be improved if they could also mention line numbers and not just
> apparently byte numbers. E.g.,
> Unbalanced parentheses at line 34 column 33.

Traditionally TAB does not signal an error for unbalanced parentheses.
It may indirectly signal such a problem by indenting to "a weird place".

IOW, please tell us in which case you got the above error, so we can
catch it and turn it into a non-error.

        Stefan