Package: emacs;
Reported by: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:45:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):
From: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org Subject: 23.0.60; bibtex failed on this bib entry Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:37:55 +0800
Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
In BibTeX-mode run C-c C-c on this entry to get the backtrace.
@misc{dingle1976qeh,
title={{Quantum effects in heterostructure lasers}},
author={Dingle, R. and Henry, C.H.},
year={1976},
month=sep # "~21",
publisher={Google Patents},
note={US Patent 3,982,207}
}
The bib entry can also be obtained from the following link
http://scholar.google.com/scholar.bib?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&output=search&q=info:O42N6xYt09QJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&oe=ASCII&oi=citation
Backtrace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses" 143 210)
scan-sexps(143 1)
forward-sexp(1)
bibtex-parse-field-string()
bibtex-parse-field-text()
bibtex-parse-association(bibtex-parse-field-name bibtex-parse-field-text)
bibtex-parse-field()
bibtex-valid-entry(t)
bibtex-end-of-entry()
bibtex-fill-entry()
bibtex-format-entry()
(cond ((bibtex-string= entry-type "preamble") (error "No clean up of @Preamble entries")) ((bibtex-string= entry-type "string") (setq entry-type ...)) (t (bibtex-format-entry)))
(let ((case-fold-search t) (start ...) (_ ...) (entry-type ...) (key ...)) (cond (... ...) (... ...) (t ...)) (when (or new-key ...) (setq key ...) (if ... ...) (save-excursion ... ... ...)) (unless called-by-reformat (let* ... ... ... ... ...) (if bibtex-clean-entry-hook ...)))
bibtex-clean-entry(nil)
call-interactively(bibtex-clean-entry nil nil)
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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2008-12-14 on BREPNB
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
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: ENG
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: cp1252
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: BibTeX
Minor modes in effect:
diff-auto-refine-mode: t
TeX-PDF-mode: t
dired-omit-mode: t
recentf-mode: t
icomplete-mode: t
savehist-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
xterm-mouse-mode: t
delete-selection-mode: t
global-auto-revert-mode: t
minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode: t
which-function-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
column-number-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
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