From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10495: 24.0.92; pp-eval-last-sexp doesn't work on a `symbol' in quotes Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:50:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87k44v8mip.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: michael_heerdegen@web.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326480644 9895 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2012 18:50:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:50:44 +0000 (UTC) To: 10495@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 13 19:50:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RlmCx-0007vX-RT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:50:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlmCx-0005nZ-6f for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:49:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlmBk-0003l1-Ed for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:39835) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlmBk-0003kn-84 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:49:20 -0500 Original-Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA1B1BF93B39 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:49:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from snow ([82.113.99.102]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0Ldmkd-1SUhi92vid-00iqkF; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:49:18 +0100 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:S/XB4lELJMJ+0KfoHHz07xPVCxp49x6dI9ENmPjUdCw UaJeh08Z8vtkcZnxm27hBLabfE8cWWRWcv/x2VpcmYF78Bn3HG uYeMis7LsB37ZAYfAweVbyVGjh713qmwmtYTov9JOghCNp4bn7 +BnTQPCk2LZyMywIbkz5ToHpMwlsu07Zgvyw4U86JWX5tt5lTo I81SkTEwR6QltkUz5kr4Y668lMXn6oy0/Yu5zOrHio= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55705 Archived-At: Hi, the command `eval-last-sexp' has a very useful feature: Having point at a symbol (or a sexp) that is enclosed in `...' (think of the manual or docstrings), the sorrounded quotes are ignored so that evaluation of it works. OTOH, `pp-eval-last-sexp' doesn't have this feature. I think it really really should, I can't see any disadvantage. As a workaround, the following works well for me: (fset #'pp-last-sexp (symbol-function 'preceding-sexp)) Besides: IMHO it's a pity that pp.el is not described in any manual (or is it? - didn't find something). At least, the header of pp.el should describe how to use it. E.g. just tell the user to do (global-set-key [?\C-x ?\C-e] 'pp-eval-last-sexp) (global-set-key [?\M-:] 'pp-eval-expression) or something like that. Thanks, Michael. In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.2.3) of 2012-01-11 on zelenka, modified by Debian (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20120111-1) Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11102902 configured using `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.0.92/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.0.92/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--without-compress-info' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-imagemagick=yes' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2''