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Re: beginning-of-defun (again)
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: beginning-of-defun (again) |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:31:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> writes:
> On 29.10.2015 13:46, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Hello, Andreas.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:24:48PM +0100, Andreas Röhler wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>> maybe it's time to have a reasonable default-behavior of
>>> beginning-of-defun in Emacs Lisp.
>>> IMO there is no reason for stuff like
>>> open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start
>> Unfortunately, there is. Setting it to nil ensures accurate recognition
>> of non-nested parens,
>
> Sorry, Alan, but if there is no syntax expecting a start in column 0,
> there is no reason to assume that.
>
> Relying on such means working in some cases, in other not. You won't
> want that.
If Emacs becomes too slow for useful work otherwise, that's no
alternative to it sometimes making assumptions leading to bad
highlighting.
--
David Kastrup
Re: beginning-of-defun (again), Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/29
Re: beginning-of-defun (again), Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/29
Re: beginning-of-defun (again), Richard Stallman, 2015/10/29