From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: beginning-of-defun (again) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:06:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56320200.4050503@online.de> <56331269.1040804@online.de> <56347561.2010900@online.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446340013 15339 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2015 01:06:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 01:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 01 02:06:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zsh6S-000720-Px for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2015 02:06:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zsh6S-0006gi-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40816) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zsh6O-0006gS-GQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zsh6N-0002Ja-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:06:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zsh6L-0002J6-1f; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zsh6K-0006LV-AW; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:06:28 -0400 In-reply-to: <56347561.2010900@online.de> (message from Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= on Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:01:37 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193047 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Sure, it's possible to live with it. But why not remove that constraint, > if possible? The column-0 convention is very useful because it gives you control over which lists are treated as defuns, by how you indent them. If you write (foo (defun x...)) Then the whole thing is treated as a defun. But if you write (foo (defun x...)) then the (defun x ...) is treated as a defun. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.