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Yeoh Yiu <squid@panix.com> writes:

> What I would like instead is an error message such as
>         Error in ~/.gnus: line 43 missmatched "

This is hard to do, since newlines are allows in strings in Emacs
Lisp.  That is, the following is a valid Lisp statement:

(setq x "this
string
contains
multiple
lines")

kai
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