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Re: scan-sexps throws an error - are there any substitutes?
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: scan-sexps throws an error - are there any substitutes? |
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Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:07:41 +0100 |
On 2015-03-27, at 00:12, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> scan-sexps throws an error if it cannot move as many sexps as I want.
>> This is fine in interactive use, but not really helpful in Lisp code I’m
>> writing. (For the curious: I’m trying to write a solid SLOC-counting
>> function, and I need moving by sexps to determine whether a string is
>> a docstring, which I want to exclude from the count.) Any ideas what to
>> do? I could rewrite it in Elisp, but is it a good idea? I doubt so.
>>
>> NB. I don't really use scan-sexps, I use backward-sexp, which is
>> seemingly a higher level function – but, unlike search functions, it
>> doesn't have a “noerror” argument.
>
> You can wrap any code in `ignore-errors' to, well, ignore errors. ;-)
What a surprise! ;-)
> You can also use `condition-case' to ignore particular signals.
This will probably be better, thanks!
Best,
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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University