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From: stl@isogmbh.de
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,  henrik@enberg.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backward-up-list
Date: 09 Aug 2002 10:38:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uit2kv33s.fsf@isogmbh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208090800.g7980In12044@rum.cs.yale.edu>

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> >     Of course if backward-up-list can work all within the string
> >     (in which it currently already DTRT), it should still DTRT.
> > 
> > I don't think so.  I think that reliably moving out of the string
> > would be a more useful feature than operating on parentheses within a
> > string's contents.
> 
> I very often use sexp-operations like backward-up-list inside strings
> (and even across strings, although it's only by luck that it works ;-).
> It's very handy when jumping around regexp groups, for example.

I thought backward-up-list does not work inside a string? Actually thats why
i came up with the first post...

> Maybe this usage pattern is unusual, I don't know, but I do know that
> I would miss it enough to write a little function to recover the "old"
> behavior rather than get used to the new behavior.

Maybe a variable could be used to switch between the two possibilities?
And a toogle function so that one could bind it to a key if need.


Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-09  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-17 13:45 backward-up-list Stephan Stahl
2002-07-17 13:48 ` backward-up-list Stefan Monnier
2002-07-18 14:55 ` backward-up-list Richard Stallman
2002-07-18 18:08   ` backward-up-list Henrik Enberg
2002-07-18 18:56     ` backward-up-list Stefan Monnier
2002-07-19 16:54     ` backward-up-list Richard Stallman
2002-07-19 17:52       ` backward-up-list Stefan Monnier
2002-07-20  0:35         ` backward-up-list Richard Stallman
2002-08-09  8:00           ` backward-up-list Stefan Monnier
2002-08-09  8:38             ` stl [this message]
2002-08-10 17:16             ` backward-up-list Richard Stallman
2002-07-20 22:02       ` backward-up-list Henrik Enberg

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