Paren scan error in gnus-article-mode

[Stephen Berman]

I read a posting with Gnus that contains the following line:

> the "(< 0 (length LIST)) === LIST" part to newbie me?

When I put the cursor on the first `(' and type either `C-M-f' or
`C-M-n', I get the following error:

Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 530, 584

(530 is where I put the cursor, 584 is (point-max).)  I assume this is
due to the following line in gnus-article-mode-syntax-table:

(modify-syntax-entry ?< "(>" table)

Since I'm not familiar with the code, I leave a fix to someone who is.

Steve Berman


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.7 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.7)
 of 2005-12-09 on escher
X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000
configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  eldoc-mode: t
  senator-minor-mode: t
  semantic-idle-summary-mode: t
  semantic-idle-scheduler-mode: t
  tabbar-mwheel-mode: t
  tabbar-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: identity

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i <tab> <return> C-h f g n u s - a r t <tab> - m o 
<tab> <return> <f11> <up> <up> <up> <return> C-h v 
m o <backspace> a j o <tab> <return> <help-echo> <select-window> 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <help-echo> <down-mouse-2> 
<mouse-2> q q <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-M-x C-M-x 
C-M-x <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <select-window> 
<help-echo> <select-window> q C-x 1 <next> <next> <next> 
<home> C-s s y n t <f11> <up> C-g <f2> <f11> <up> <return> 
<select-window> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> C-h f <return> C-x 1 2 C-_ <down-mouse-5> 
<mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> M-x r e p o r <tab> 
b <tab> <return>

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