GNU bug report logs - #18764
24.4; electric-indent in *scratch* signals an error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed, patch

Found in versions 24.4, 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 18764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18764: 24.4; electric-indent in *scratch* signals an error
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:48:18 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 18764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 22:34:35 -0400
>> 
>> Not sure exactly what to do about this though.  Maybe parse-partial-sexp
>> should (optionally?) signal an error when the curlevel stack overflows?
>
> Why do we produce an error instead of just inserting the character?

I don't quite follow; the newline character has already been inserted as
far as I can tell.  Then we signal an error while trying to indent.
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