From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 50731@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50731: `progress-reporter-update' docstring and `backward-sexp' interaction
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:12:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmHmK8+jCBJCc3X2Fg6g_2sbtiVLKisKkL75RCZ5aWOig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k0j9vz63.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> A) We should support the above convention of using three dashes in
>> `backward-sexp'. (This is the rough ASCII equivalent of an em dash.)
>>
>> B) We should just not use the above convention in
>> `progress-reporter-update'.
>
> None of the above? I guess I don't yet understand the root cause for
> the problem.
I guess I have mixed up two different things above.
From my point of view, the first thing to do is to decide is if this
`backward-sexp' behavior is a bug or not. So this comes down to if we
think that "---" should be treated as a delimiter, just as " - " is, in
the context of ELisp docstrings.
I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I did find the current
behavior somewhat surprising when I saw it.
On the other hand, even if this is a bug, it might very well not be
worth fixing as the "---" delimiter is not very commonly used.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-22 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 6:52 bug#50731: `progress-reporter-update' docstring and `backward-sexp' interaction Stefan Kangas
2021-09-22 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-22 22:12 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-23 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-23 7:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-23 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-23 9:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-23 20:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-22 20:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 22:12 ` Stefan Kangas
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