From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: make up-list escape strings
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:54:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzjjvxivr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5344A698.6080201@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:47:04 -0700")
> I'm not sure which behavior is more useful. Your proposed behavior is a
> departure from what we have today, and one could make a case for either
> approach. I haven't heard anyone complain about up-list crossing string
> boundaries.
Indeed, it's a problem, but crossing string boundaries makes the
behavior less deterministic. I agree it can be useful, but I'm not
convinced it's worth the unpredictability: up-list can end up moving to
some very far away string, that's completely unrelated. Currently noone
complains because when the cross-string jump is not useful, it's not
really worse than getting an error, but when the user intended to get
out of the current string, she'll be very disappointed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-09 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-08 23:14 Proposal: make up-list escape strings Daniel Colascione
2014-04-09 1:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-09 1:47 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-09 3:54 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-04-09 3:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-09 4:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-09 6:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-09 12:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-09 16:09 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-09 6:17 ` Andreas Röhler
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