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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: moving in js
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:20:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5023E330.8070205@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDnm512KSuJw+ZScjnn59x7OZLnWOfyZzLVBe_4CiLqdKTAkA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 09.08.2012 17:04, schrieb João Távora:
>> also seen from usage, that command should never fail, unless beginning or
>> end of buffers are reached.
>>
>
> I don't understand this part. Why should it not fail?

Well, that's a matter of taste maybe. IMO expression have the part of words in natural language.
Not exactly, as common words don't nest, but similar. Will you ever get an error from "forward-word" unless at the EOB?

  In your opinion,
> what is backward-sexp suppose to do on its second invocation in a lisp-mode
> buffer containing
>
> (foo (bar baz) quux)
>
> with the cursor in the innermost list between "bar" and "baz"??
>

it would reach the beginning of the innermost list, "(bar"

a second invocation would reach "foo"




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-09 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-07 19:11 moving in js Andreas Röhler
2012-08-07 20:33 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-08-08  5:37   ` Andreas Röhler
2012-08-08 17:37     ` João Távora
2012-08-09  5:45       ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]         ` <CALDnm512KSuJw+ZScjnn59x7OZLnWOfyZzLVBe_4CiLqdKTAkA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-09 16:20           ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
     [not found]             ` <CALDnm537EEG=6s9KJrqSZN35zBTg=GLcE7OBJy8h=N4zAD03cA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-09 17:19               ` Andreas Röhler
2012-08-10  1:14                 ` João Távora
2012-08-10  6:45                   ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]                     ` <CALDnm52urB5ZD7gkDeGE4irOn+J-EWzLVcDfEetZVrf95ZESEA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-10 11:15                       ` Andreas Röhler

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