Re: Honesty with parse-partial-sexp

[Stefan Monnier]

>     ! 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