Customize bug

[Phil Mitchell]

Hello,

I ran into a problem trying to set an option using Customize. The option
was "jde-enable-abbrev-mode", but I have reproduced this with native
emacs options. What happened: I toggled the value, then when I tried to
set State (save for future sessions), I got a scan-error: unbalanced
parentheses. The culprit turned out to be several different items in my
.emacs file where a semi-colon was used without being escaped. I have
included two such examples. The macro was created using
name-last-keyboard-macro and insert-keybd-macro, not coded by hand.

Thanks! Let me know if you need any more info... I have fixed this for
myself by escaping these semi-colons.

Phil

(global-set-key [?\M-;] 'count-lines-page)

(fset 'for-loop
   [tab ?f ?o ?r ?  ?( ?i ?n ?t ?  ?i ?= ?0 ?; ?i ?< ?; ?i ?+ ?+ ?) ?
?{ return return return ?} tab ?\C-p ?\C-p ?\C-p ?\C-f ?\C-f ?\C-f ?\C-f
?\C-f])

In GNU Emacs 20.5.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of Mon Feb 21 2000 on porky.devel.redhat.com
configured using `configure  --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--sharedstatedir=/var --with-gcc --with-pop --with-x-toolkit
i386-redhat-linux-gnu'


Recent input:
menu-bar help-menu customize customize down-mouse-1
mouse-1 down-mouse-1 mouse-1 down-mouse-1 mouse-1 down-mouse-1
mouse-1 C-x C-f . e m tab return C-SPC C-n C-g down-mouse-1
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement mouse-movement
mouse-movement mouse-movement drag-mouse-1 M-x r e
p o SPC r t SPC e m tab return

Recent messages:
Creating customization items ...100%done
Creating customization setup...
Creating customization buffer...done
To install your edits, invoke [State] and choose the Set operation
Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 1, 171
Mark set
Quit
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