Subject: Re: bug#54551: show-paren-mode inconsistency

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:51:31 +0100

On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:10:36 +0000 goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I am debugging a problem where emacs states that there exists an extra
> closing parenthesis, but having extreme difficulty locating it.
>
> Have split the file in two and using "require" on a child file.  Otherwise
> I have to comment each line of code rather than whole sections.  Commenting
> each line is likely to introduce errors if one is not very careful removing
> the comment tags.

Have you tried calling `check-parens' in the files?

Steve Berman