Re: backward-up-list

[stl@isogmbh.de]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> >     Of course if backward-up-list can work all within the string
> >     (in which it currently already DTRT), it should still DTRT.
> > 
> > I don't think so.  I think that reliably moving out of the string
> > would be a more useful feature than operating on parentheses within a
> > string's contents.
> 
> I very often use sexp-operations like backward-up-list inside strings
> (and even across strings, although it's only by luck that it works ;-).
> It's very handy when jumping around regexp groups, for example.

I thought backward-up-list does not work inside a string? Actually thats why
i came up with the first post...

> Maybe this usage pattern is unusual, I don't know, but I do know that
> I would miss it enough to write a little function to recover the "old"
> behavior rather than get used to the new behavior.

Maybe a variable could be used to switch between the two possibilities?
And a toogle function so that one could bind it to a key if need.


Stephan