Radon Rosborough writes: > If you insert the format string into a temporary buffer, then the `read' > function will read up to the closing parenthesis and update point > accordingly. That would be a foolproof way to handle all possible Lisp > forms: use a regexp to find the start, and then use `read' to find the end. > Then proceed with regexp matching, and repeat like that. Thanks for the suggestion! The patch is attached. Best, Ihor