FORWARD-SEXP on foo'bar

FORWARD-SEXP on foo'bar

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Hi,

FORWARD-SEXP (or actually, SCAN-SEXPS underneath) moves POINT
in "foo'bar" to the end of BAR. 

`(info "(Elisp)Parsing Expressions")' [from 22.0.91.1] says:

   Basically, a sexp is either a balanced parenthetical grouping, a
   string, or a symbol name (a sequence of characters whose syntax is
   either word constituent or symbol constituent).  However, _characters
   whose syntax is expression prefix are treated as part of the sexp if
   they appear next to it._  (Emphasis mine.)

I can see how this is supposed to deal with cases where the quote
character prefixes a symbol, so that you move to the end of the symbol
in "'bar". But what about the above case? Is this intentional?

  -T. 

Re: FORWARD-SEXP on foo'bar

[Richard Stallman]

    FORWARD-SEXP (or actually, SCAN-SEXPS underneath) moves POINT
    in "foo'bar" to the end of BAR. 

It is an undesirable result, but given the limitations of the
syntax.c functions, it is the best we can get.

Since it is not clean to write foo'bar without a space,
in practice this is not a problem for cleanly formatted Lisp code.