Subject: Re: bug#43489: [PATCH] Don't signal scan-error when moving by sexp interactively

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:43:50 +0200

João Távora <[email-masked]> writes:

>  >  Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 5010, 5010
>  >
>  > or
>  >
>  >  Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 5010, 1
>  >
>  > which is unhelpful and rather looks as if something went wrong in the
>  > internal machinery.
>
>  Yes, those error messages are confusing in interactive usage.
>
> I disagree strongly.  Maybe the integers following them and 
> containing character positions are confusing, but the messages 
> themselves are fine.  

Yes, those are the confusing bits.  :-)  "Scan error" and ", 5010, 1"
sounds like something went wrong deep inside Emacs.

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