From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: transpose-sexps
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 22:02:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701052202.39990.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoodpd7s5g.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
Miles Bader wrote:
> Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:
> > As long as other other "sexp" is empty it doesn't make sense to
> > "transpose" with it. Humans are not computers, they will get only
> > confused by it. Or what do you mean by " " sexp?
>
> A string is an sexp. " " is a string containing a single space.
>
> Emacs sees on the left side of point, a sexp: " ", and on the right side
> of point, another sexp: f. It swaps them. That's what the command
> does.
I see now.
> [Maybe, as Richard mentioned, it should be more friendly by detecting
> that it's inside a string and do... something... in that case (what??),
> but detecting that is not particularly trivial (and so is not a suitable
> change just before a release).]
It is probably possible to ask current major mode if we are in a string.
If it is not possible, than it is probably worth it to invent a consistent
interface that major modes would implement. I agree that it is not to be
done now, of course. (And while I'm at it, it's a pity that "now" spans
the last two years or so.)
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 21:34 transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-04 21:48 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-04 22:02 ` transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-04 22:49 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-04 22:53 ` transpose-sexps Andreas Schwab
2007-01-04 23:28 ` transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-05 9:13 ` transpose-sexps Miles Bader
2007-01-05 20:02 ` Paul Pogonyshev [this message]
2007-01-08 18:06 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-08 21:16 ` transpose-sexps Paul Pogonyshev
2007-01-08 21:22 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-09 2:08 ` transpose-sexps Stefan Monnier
2007-01-08 18:00 ` transpose-sexps Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-05 9:38 ` transpose-sexps Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05 0:30 ` transpose-sexps Richard Stallman
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