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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Mosur Mohan <mmohan@ichips.intel.com>
Cc: mosur.mohan@intel.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: perl-mode backward-sexp strangeness
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:06:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474546AE.9080306@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711212248.lALMmYgq020215@plxc3752.pdx.intel.com>

> In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
...
> In a perl-mode buffer, I have a line that says:
>   $instloc = 0;
> 
> Put the cursor on the 'n' of $instloc (i.e., the 2nd char of the variable),
> and do \C-M-b, i.e., (backward-sexp): it moves to the 'i', not the '$'
> Put the cursor on any other character of $instloc and do \C-M-b and it
> moves to the '$'.
> 
> Why this difference?

Thanks for reporting.  It's a bug in Emacs 21 that has been fixed
in the meantime.  Could you try to upgrade to a more recent version?





      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-22  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-21 22:48 perl-mode backward-sexp strangeness Mosur Mohan
2007-11-22  9:06 ` martin rudalics [this message]

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