From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-u prefix behavior of TAB broken
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:40:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejb2rvlx.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877igucfzx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:26:58 +0900")
>> I have bound a key to the command that calls `indent-for-tab-command'
>> with a prefix argument, and when I accidently type it a close parenthesis,
>> it fails with the error "Containing expression ends prematurely".
>
> That sounds correct to me...
This is correct, but I thought this is not very useful.
>> I think it would be better not to fail at such places, and just indent
>> the current line without indenting the following sexp.
>
> Wouldn't it be a bit more elegant for you to change your command to
> do something like:
>
> (condition-case err (indent-for-tab-command t)
> (error (indent-for-tab-command)))
This is not a problem for me, but I doubted that displaying an error message
would be useful for someone who types `C-u TAB' at the wrong place.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-24 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-16 22:07 C-u prefix behavior of TAB broken Miles Bader
2007-12-17 12:48 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-17 14:27 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-17 19:03 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-21 0:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-21 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-22 0:11 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-22 9:28 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-22 13:48 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-22 17:41 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-22 19:52 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-22 22:35 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-22 22:59 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-24 19:05 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-24 19:26 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-24 19:40 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-02-25 2:56 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-23 0:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-23 1:39 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-23 21:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-22 21:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-22 22:08 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-23 21:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-23 21:44 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-24 21:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-24 22:33 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-26 5:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-26 13:49 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-12-26 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-27 20:19 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-28 13:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-28 13:55 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 21:52 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-03 23:50 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-23 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-23 9:13 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-26 3:00 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-18 2:24 ` Richard Stallman
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