From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: beginning-of-defun (again)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:17:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a8r08bm1.fsf@Vulcan.attlocal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twp8wvop.fsf@gmail.com> (Oleh Krehel's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:29:58 +0100")
>>>>> Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:
> If they are within macros, they're data and not defuns in my mind. For me, a
> defun is a top-level expression with "(" at column 0. It doesn't even need
> to define something callable (like `defun' or `defmacro'), so a `defcustom'
> statement is a defun for purposes of `beginning-of-defun'.
I realize you think this, Oleh; what I'm saying is that not everyone does.
As I mentioned, I'm fine with using column 0 as a heuristic. However, there
are use cases where it is confusing (I *still* hit C-M-x on nested defun's,
and find myself surprised that it does something else; and this despite
knowing the nature of the beast full well, and after many years of experience
of it not working).
Some people see "defun" and think this establishes a sort of syntactic entity
with regard to Emacs commands relating to defuns. What we're talking about is
a technical distinction that makes life easier for us -- and not about users
who find it confusing.
Since the decision is to go with the status quo, is there anything to discuss?
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-30 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-29 11:24 beginning-of-defun (again) Andreas Röhler
2015-10-29 11:52 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-29 12:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-29 13:07 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-29 13:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-29 13:47 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-29 17:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-29 12:11 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-29 12:16 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-29 17:56 ` John Wiegley
2015-10-30 1:35 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-30 2:20 ` John Wiegley
2015-10-30 9:29 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-30 18:17 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2015-10-30 23:13 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-30 23:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-30 23:34 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-01 1:05 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-29 12:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-29 12:56 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-29 13:31 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-29 14:46 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-29 14:57 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-29 14:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-30 1:34 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-30 6:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-30 23:14 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-31 8:01 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-31 12:24 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-31 15:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-01 1:06 ` Richard Stallman
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