GNU bug report logs - #36068
27.0.50; Warning: unescaped character literals `?)' detected, `?\)' expected!

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 02:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed, patch

Found in version 27.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: npostavs <at> gmail.com
Cc: 36068 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36068: 27.0.50; Warning: unescaped character literals `?)' detected, `?\)' expected!
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:34:26 +0200

npostavs <at> gmail.com writes:

> Ah, I think the problem can be triggered any time you `read' an unescaped
> literal outside of `load'.  E.g., from emacs -Q:
>
>     M-: (read "?)") RET
>
> or even just
>
>     M-: ?) RET
>
> Now any byte-compilation will report unescaped `?)'.  You can
>
>     (setq lread--unescaped-character-literals nil)
>
> to stop it.

I can confirm all of that.

I use `read' quite often through el-search, also through an experimental
el-search-hi-lock mode, so that might explain why I might see the
problem more often than others.

Michael.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 348 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.