Subject: Re: bug#24542: 25.1.50; The symbol `@' and sexp scanning

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:58:48 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> insert
>
>     (eq element '@)
>
> in an elisp mode buffer (e.g. scratch).  Put point at the quote or the
> "@".  Eval
>
>     (goto-char (scan-sexps (point) 1))
>
> and you get an error like:
>
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Containing expression ends
> prematurely" 15 16)

It seems that you can replace the symbol `@' in this recipe with any
symbol whose name has the form "@+", i.e. `@@' or `@@@' or...  When the
symbol contains only one character different from "@", it doesn't seem
to happen.

Michael.