Hi Karl and Chuck

Well, it turns out that part two of my message was a false alarm. Reformatting does not have a mysterious effect on parsing after all, I just had a confounding variable at the same time. Anyway, the incorporation of the python beautifier, in the first place, is the real news! There is indeed a coherent change in the line number for the bug I was describing, from
$(..) in line 1
to something like
$(..) in line 5017

That's what I was hoping for - I'm still someplace in the middle with fastmail, but making extra progress as a result of the line numbers!

Course I would expect a syntax error, not a type error.

Yes, it may be one of those things where the reported cause for runtimes is skewed relative to what is actually going on. As a matter of fact, I was thinking recently that when I sit down with pages' worth of edbrowse output from the higher debug levels, I am generally starting at the bottom, which may be a mistake. It suddenly hit me that runtimes in these web pages may be a little like the compilation errors from gcc or something! Maybe there is a cascading effect, and the errors lower down are side effects of the first few. So I should be going to the root cause and starting with the first thing first. I discovered that it makes a nice debug mode if I add some exit(0) statements to readMessage in ebjs.c. So this way, the whole program will quit on the very first error, which forces me to address things in the order they occur.

K

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