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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 3416@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3416: down-list
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:13:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7hzzn5jq.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A201255.2050204@easy-emacs.de> ("Andreas Röhler"'s message of "Fri, 29 May 2009 18:50:29 +0200")

> you are right. Nonetheless, as strings are common
> elements of lists, not just in Python, its such an
> inconvenience, it qualifies as bug in my eyes.

Agreed.  As it stands `down-list' does what it is documented to do, but
it is not always the best thing to do.  Same holds for `forward-sexp'
and several other friends.

I think these need to be split into functions (that keep the current
name and behavior) and commands (with new names), where the commands can
then be modified to be more clever about guessing the start state
(presumably using syntax-ppss) and doing something useful with it.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-29 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-29 13:13 bug#3416: down-list Andreas Roehler
2009-05-29 14:49 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-29 16:50   ` Andreas Röhler
2009-05-29 17:10     ` martin rudalics
2009-05-29 18:04       ` Andreas Röhler
2009-05-29 18:13     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-05-29 20:20       ` Andreas Röhler

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