Re: beginning-of-defun (again)

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Richard.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 07:13:56PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>   > > Is there a specific practical reason why it is important for the defuns in
>   > > init.el not to start in column 0?

>   > They are within macros controlling whether they are evaluated or compiled or
>   > not, based on available packages on the system.

> I don't follow how that affects what column the openparen can be in.
> Could you show what this looks like?

I think what John's saying is that in circumstances such as:

(eval-and-compile
  (defmacro foo ......
  ....
  ))

, the beginning of the defun (here a defmacro) for foo isn't at column
0, because Emacs Lisp Mode's indentation puts it to column 2.  So a
C-M-a will not find "(defmacro foo ...", which is sometimes irritating,
particularly when there are several de\(fun\|macro\)s within one
eval-and-compile.

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