From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:43:29 +0300 Message-ID: <83y27nt9ny.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83a6k3uspt.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfxv2p4e.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <835yururh3.fsf@gnu.org> <8335pvuqfh.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuibyxzd.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26969"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 23 20:44:41 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mTTi5-0006jx-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:44:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54494 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mTTi3-0002i7-NF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mTTh3-00021u-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mTTh3-0000un-AM; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3082 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mTTh3-0006jI-1u; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:43:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tuibyxzd.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:59:18 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:275366 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:59:18 +0300 > > > It looks like it prefers the innermost thing, whether it's a list or a > > string. Is that correct? If so, why/when/where is this kind of > > "thing" useful in practice? > > It's useful to just click inside either a list or string, > and choose "Select>List" or "Select>String" from the context menu, > and it will select the right thing, either a list when clicked inside list, > or string when clicked inside a string. But the same can happen with a slit/string enclosed within a defun, or a word enclosed withing a string or a list. Do we also need defun-or-string or list-or-string-or-word or any other combinations? Is this really the correct and useful analysis of this kind of problems?