From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Why is `C-M-x' only for top-level defuns? Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:23:30 +0900 Message-ID: <87pqep8pf1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326345827 14912 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2012 05:23:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:23:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 12 06:23:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RlD8Z-00013K-Km for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:23:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36541 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlD8Z-0001AQ-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:23:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlD8W-0001AG-F4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:23:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlD8V-0007cn-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:23:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:53665) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlD8U-0007Up-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756B39707E9; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:23:30 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3EEFC1A29FF; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:23:30 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" e6b5c49f9e13 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147606 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > Why not let `C-M-x' re-evaluate a "defun" (defcustom, defface, > etc.) that is not necessarily at top level? E.g., with point on, > say, `defface' in this sexp, why shouldn't `C-M-x' redefine the > face? I don't see any reason in the `when' you're talking about, but in many cases such forms will refer to let-bound variables and the like, and the results there could be rather confusing.