Re: [External] : forward-sexp

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 11.08.23 um 19:43 schrieb Drew Adams:
>> M-x forward-sexp RET works from the beginning of the first line, but 
>> does nothing from the beginning at the second. Are there reasons for 
>> this? [ asdf ] .

> The syntactic definition of "sexp" depends on the context, e.g., the 
> current major mode. Without knowing how a "sexp" is defined in your 
> context, we can't help much. That said, trying it in a Lisp mode tells 
> me that an error is raised when I try it at the beginning of the 
> second line, because: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error 
> "Unbalanced parentheses" 450 459) scan-sexps(450 1) forward-sexp(1) 
> funcall-interactively(forward-sexp 1) call-interactively(forward-sexp 
> nil nil) command-execute(forward-sexp) IOW, the `(' char isn't 
> balanced with a `)' char, so parsing to the end of the `[' sexp isn't 
> possible. 

let assume fundamental mode, cursor at opening bracket: what puzzles me,

with [ asdf ] it recognizes the opening bracket.

In such a case, it should not look inside, just travel onto the closing one.

But with [(&asdf] it fails.