From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: emacs-25 f708cb2: Clarify doc string of 'transpose-sexps'
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 09:44:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <977b7eaa-1c5f-4d8b-be5d-33ec73f5a962@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y40zckn9.fsf@gmx.net>
> > What does it mean to be in the middle of a list, for example?
> > A case mentioned in the bug report is this:
> >
> >>> When point is in the middle of a list it can also be between two
> >>> sexps, which themselves could be lists: ((foo)|(bar)), with
> >>> point at |.
> >
> > Point here is in the middle of the outer list, but it is between
> > the two inner lists. Any text description needs to be more careful
> > and explicit, if it really wants to make the point clear.
>
> I think a reasonable interpretation of "in the middle of a sexp" is
> that the relevant sexp
What "relevant sexp"? To say that point is in the middle of a
sexp does not imply that it is in the middle of only one sexp.
There might be any number of such in-the-middle-of, "relevant"
sexps.
> is the one whose start and end are closer to point (counting
> leftwards and rightwards from point, respectively) than those
> of any other sexp.
If that's what is meant then that's what the doc should say:
"the innermost sexp containing point".
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2016-11-04 14:09 ` emacs-25 f708cb2: Clarify doc string of 'transpose-sexps' Stephen Berman
2016-11-04 14:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 15:47 ` Stephen Berman
2016-11-04 16:44 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-11-04 17:08 ` Stephen Berman
2016-11-04 17:21 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 17:50 ` Stephen Berman
2016-11-04 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-04 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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