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From: Zaz Brown <zazbrown@zazbrown.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dalanicolai@gmail.com, 63626@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63626: [PATCH] Make forward and backward-to-word arg optional
Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 11:39:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACTmS+iM51+dVJMwiu07a7QCvQK0Fh4OYKCmY2Mkq7AuiFVmmQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837csujly8.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 12:02 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> But I'm still not convinced we need to change the signature of the
> function.  What are the use cases where you'd want to pass
> forward-to-word as a function argument to another function?

I can't think of a good example and wasn't able to find an example of
a forward-to-word lambda on GitHub code search.  So perhaps I'm
mistaken that this would be useful.  I'll have to leave that
discussion to those who are more familiar with Emacs and Lisp.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-27 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-21  4:33 bug#63626: [PATCH] Make forward and backward-to-word arg optional Zaz Brown
2023-05-26 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <CACTmS+g93z7ns6AD9v-a+-TRVkVuTLt5RGi5YVTGUA8J1BM3dw@mail.gmail.com>
2023-05-27  7:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-27 18:39       ` Zaz Brown [this message]
2023-05-28  5:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-29 15:24           ` dalanicolai
2023-05-29 16:46             ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-31 13:15               ` Eli Zaretskii

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