From: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 4717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4717: 23.1.50; C-M-h in bibtex mode
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:38:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19163.57157.842686.926110@regnitz.physics.niu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws2sbg0k.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
On Sun Oct 18 2009 Chong Yidong wrote:
> > mark-defun does not put point where beginning-of-defun puts it. But
> > if there is an empty line preceding the beginning-of-defun location,
> > mark-defun will put point there. Why? The docstring of mark-defun
> > does not explain this behavior.
>
> I don't know the answer. This behavior dates to 1993, though, so I
> don't think it's feasible to change it for Lisp mode.
Agreed, changing it will probably break something. Could it be that
the empty line was included so that in a sequence of defuns (each
normally separated by one empty line) mark-defun could by used, for
example in combination with kill-region and yank to move around
defuns in a simple way?
No matter whether something like that or anything else was the
actual reason for implementing this behavior, the docstring should
always document the actual behavior
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-19 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-15 20:56 bug#4717: 23.1.50; C-M-h in bibtex mode Chong Yidong
2009-10-15 23:09 ` Roland Winkler
2009-10-18 17:09 ` Roland Winkler
2009-10-18 20:31 ` Chong Yidong
2009-10-19 3:38 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2009-10-13 15:26 ` Leo
2014-11-04 16:15 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-05 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-11 23:53 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-07 0:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-07 2:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-07 8:18 ` Colin Baxter
2022-03-07 17:39 ` Roland Winkler
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