From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Somehow strange behaviour of `mark-sexp' Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:04:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87a9dvxddw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392303860 23118 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2014 15:04:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:04:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 13 16:04:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WDxpv-0003qW-0f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:04:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDxpu-0004RD-JM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDxpT-0004D7-7i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDxpL-000877-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:03:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDxpL-00086t-Mc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WDxpK-0003JK-FX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:03:46 +0100 Original-Received: from e178054133.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.54.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:03:46 +0100 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178054133.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:03:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178054133.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hioi7JFxrS+T/XeopLH792X7QJU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96053 Archived-At: Hi List, when doing 'C-h v mark-sexp' I see this (excerpt): ,----------------------------------------------------------------- | mark-sexp is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `lisp.el'. | | It is bound to C-M-@, C-M-SPC. `----------------------------------------------------------------- Now, moving point to the beginning of C-M-@ and calling ` mark-sexp', ,----- | C-M- `----- is marked. When moving point to the @ at the end of C-M-@ and calling `mark-sexp', ,----------- | @, C-M-SPC `----------- is marked, which I found a bit counter-intuitive. PS 1 `forward-sexp' acts like that too PS 2 I'm working on the console -- cheers, Thorsten