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From: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: skeleton.el _ versus @, a new patch
Date: 22 Apr 2003 17:27:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051057678.74664.33.camel@zircon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304221331.h3MDVZbX007869@rum.cs.yale.edu>

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 06:31, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > Here is a patch to add - as an alternate skeleton character.  - operates
> > > > exactly as _ in setting skeleton-point, but does not interact with the
> > > > region wrapping effects.  This means that @ is completely unaffected and
> > > > remains as just the method of setting the skeleton-positions.
> > > > 
> > > > --- skeleton.el.orig    Sat Jul 14 04:21:08 2001
> > > > +++ skeleton.el Sun Apr 20 15:44:44 2003
> > > > @@ -453,7 +453,8 @@
> > > >         ((eq element '|)
> > > >          (unless skeleton-modified (pop skeleton)))
> > > >         ((eq element '@)
> > > > -        (push (point) skeleton-positions)
> > > > +        (push (point) skeleton-positions))
> > > > +       ((eq element '-)
> > > >          (unless skeleton-point (setq skeleton-point (point))))
> > > >         ((eq 'quote (car-safe element))
> > > >          (eval (nth 1 element)))
> > > 
> > > I think in that case, we should set skeleton-point unconditionally.
> > 
> > You *really* only want to set it on the first occurrence of the
> > appropriate character, not the last!
> 
> I don't see why anyone would want to put more than 1 such operator
> in a skeleton anyway.  So reason why I want to make it unconditional
> is so that you can do (nil "do {" \n _ \n "} while (" - ")") and be
> sure that point will always end up between the parens (I wouldn't
> want this behavior, personally, but given such a skeleton why would
> the author have put the `-' if it's not to specify where to place
> point).

I now understand.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-23  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-24 19:27 [joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us: skeleton.el _ versus @] Richard Stallman
2003-03-24 20:05 ` skeleton.el _ versus @ Stefan Monnier
2003-03-25  1:00   ` Joe Kelsey
2003-03-30 18:51     ` Joe Kelsey
2003-03-31 17:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-01  1:58       ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-01  7:25         ` Miles Bader
2003-04-01 18:41         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-02  0:08       ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-02  0:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-02  1:03           ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-02  1:17             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-04-02  1:33             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-03  0:16               ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-03  0:28                 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-03  6:45             ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2003-04-09 16:26               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-10  0:00                 ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-10 22:47                   ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-11  0:25                     ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-11 23:45                       ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-11 23:59                         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-12  0:11                           ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-12  8:51                             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-13 11:23                           ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-13 16:41                             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-13 18:54                               ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-13 19:11                             ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-20 22:50                             ` skeleton.el _ versus @, a new patch Joe Kelsey
2003-04-21 13:11                               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-22  0:32                                 ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-22 13:31                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-23  0:27                                     ` Joe Kelsey [this message]
2003-04-22  0:45                               ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-22  1:30                                 ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-24  1:50                                   ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-24 15:59                                     ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-26  2:31                                       ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-28 21:51                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-29 19:29                                           ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-18  1:31                                             ` Joe Kelsey
2003-04-02 19:26         ` skeleton.el _ versus @ Richard Stallman

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