Subject: Re: bug#30726: [26.0.91 9] optimistic forward-sexp

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 02:47:44 -0500

Andreas Röhler wrote:

> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/39253/sh-mode-scan-error-containing-expression-ends-prematurely

Already reported as bug#30721.
(It would be great if people forwarding other people's stackexchange
issues would do basic checks first.)

> Error occurs when forward-sexp is called from closing paren at last
> line of example code below
>
> (echo '#!/bin/bash'
> echo 'myfunc() {'
> echo "cat <<'z'"
> seq 135
> echo zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
> echo z
> echo '}') >out

Note that the OP meant you to run that as shell code to generate a file,
"out", and then visit it.

You appear to have discovered that using forward-sexp inside eg

(

)

will print "containing expression ends prematurely" ?