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Re: beginning-of-defun (again)
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Andreas Röhler |
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Re: beginning-of-defun (again) |
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Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:11:38 +0100 |
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On 29.10.2015 12:52, Oleh Krehel wrote:
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Röhler<address@hidden> writes:
maybe it's time to have a reasonable default-behavior of
beginning-of-defun in Emacs Lisp.
I think it works pretty well as is.
Unfortunatly not. When started from inside a string, which has an open
paren at column 0, the default will stop there.
Try from "bar":
(defun foo ()
(insert "
(bar)"))
open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start
It's a strange variable that doesn't seem to do anything. The only
relevant setting is 0 or non-zero (the default). Setting it to 0 seems
to do nothing. Maybe someone could explain what it actually does.
A function resp. top-level-form starts if the beginning of a list is
followed by a respective keyword.
The list of keywords being customizable seems a plus :)
There's no reason for a defun to not start on a newline.
Modes should honor the syntax, not impose conventions.
And there's
nothing else that makes "(" be on a new line, except for rare cases
There is a plenty of rare cases, notably when meta-programming, i.e. if
code is delivered by strings for insertion.
in
docstrings, where it can be escaped. So it seems that the problem is
already solved in a good way, without having to customize anything.
Oleh