re: Bug Re: Greater than, less than bug in emacs-lisp source block

[Charles Millar]

Thank you, John.

I will give it a try.

However, is this a bug that should be fixed within org source code?

Charlie Millar


On 9/2/21 2:24 PM, John Kitchin wrote:
> I think this issue is described in
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/50216/org-mode-code-block-parentheses-mismatch.
> There are also some solutions there.
>
>
> John
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> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 2:10 PM Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Set up:
> > GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 344, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.23,
> > cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-12-31
> > Org mode version 9.4.6 (release_9.4.6-637-gd70f28 @
> > /usr/local/share/org-mode/lisp/)
> >
> > The following code will evaluate
> >
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> > (defun Foo ()
> > (if (= 2 4) bar))
> > #+end_src
> >
> > #+RESULTS:
> > : Foo
> > and the opening and closing parentheses match.
> >
> > If a greater than is inserted instead of equals, thus
> >
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> > (defun Foo ()
> > (if (> 2 4) bar))
> > #+end_src
> >
> > it apparently evaluates, however, the closing parenthesis immediately
> > following the "4" is paired with the opening paren before "if" and not
> > the opening paren immediately before the ">"
> >
> > A "less than" results with stranger parenthesis matching - the closing
> > paren after the "4" matches no others; the closing paren immediately
> > after "bar" matches the opening paren before "if"
> >
> > Charlie Millar