From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 'Juri Linkov' <juri@jurta.org>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is `C-M-x' only for top-level defuns?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:40:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0E4835.1030106@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv62ghaezf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On 1/11/12 5:27 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> My question is whether we really want `C-M-x' to do what it does
>> instead of just pick up the innermost def* containing point.
>
> One problem is to define what is "the innermost def* containing point".
> I suspect it's difficult to formally define it in a way that always
> corresponds to the intuitive meaning.
Right. Consider:
(unless (featurep 'deffoo)
(defmacro deffoo (bar)
`(defun ,bar () POINT)))
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 17:06 Why is `C-M-x' only for top-level defuns? Drew Adams
2012-01-11 21:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-01-11 22:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-12 0:11 ` Juri Linkov
2012-01-12 0:36 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-12 1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-12 2:40 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2012-01-12 3:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-12 4:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-12 4:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-01-12 6:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-12 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-12 10:30 ` Juri Linkov
2012-01-12 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-12 15:21 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-12 16:25 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-12 16:52 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-12 5:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-12 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-12 16:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-12 16:56 ` Dave Abrahams
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