From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: transpose-sexps
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:53:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeps9u8kub.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701050002.14238.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (Paul Pogonyshev's message of "Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:02:14 +0200")
Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:
> Stuart D. Herring wrote:
>> It assumes that you are outside of strings or lists, so it saw
>> " "
>> and
>> f
>> as your two sexps, and exchanged them. It's just confusing that it looks
>> like the f was moved into the other string.
>
> It's not just confusing, it's a bug. If it doesn't work and this is not
> (easily) fixable, make it do nothing or report an error. Producing confusing
> results is worse than doing nothing.
How can you know that " " and f aren't actually the sexps that are
supposed to be transposed?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-04 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 21:34 transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-04 21:48 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-04 22:02 ` transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-04 22:49 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-04 22:53 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-01-04 23:28 ` transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-05 9:13 ` transpose-sexps Miles Bader
2007-01-05 20:02 ` transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-08 18:06 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-08 21:16 ` transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-08 21:22 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-09 2:08 ` transpose-sexps Stefan Monnier
2007-01-08 18:00 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-05 9:38 ` transpose-sexps Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05 0:30 ` transpose-sexps Richard Stallman
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