From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Honesty with parse-partial-sexp Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:04:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20061207185738.GA1607@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165637133 16297 80.91.229.10 (9 Dec 2006 04:05:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 04:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 09 05:05:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GstSq-0003df-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 05:05:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GstSp-0005vj-Ps for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:05:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GstSY-0005oA-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GstSW-0005n4-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GstSW-0005n1-Sk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:05:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.4] (helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GstSQ-00066y-LI; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.82.193]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20061209040501.LLQ12977.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E2AF78A0F; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:04:58 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 08 Dec 2006 20\:26\:30 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63491 Archived-At: > ! This element is a list. Its car is the character position of the > ! start of the outermost parenthetical grouping containing the stopping > ! point; @code{nil} if none. > Isn't it really the outermost parenthetical grouping that begins in > the text that was parsed? I believe Alan's text is more correct, although it depends on the state argument you passed into parse-partial-sexp. Stefan