Subject: bug#63436: 30.0.50; Invalid escape character syntax

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 09:36:56 +0300

> Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 08:03:31 +0200
> From:  Niels Søndergaard via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> This error comes in several situation, in my build of 30.0.50 (a
> clean and uncompilated build)
> 
> start of error message:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid escape character syntax")
>  read(#<buffer *load*-85759>)
>  load-with-code-conversion("/Users/niels/.emacs.d/straight/build/yaml/yaml.el"
> "/Users/niels/.emacs.d/straight/build/yaml/yaml.el" nil t)
>  require(yaml)

Without seeing what is in that yaml.el, I don't see how we can
investigate this issue.  Can you post that file, or tell us where to
find it on the Internet?

Are you sure the error is not correct, i.e. that the file in question
does have an invalid escape character syntax?