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Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point |
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Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:43:29 +0300 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:59:18 +0300
>
> > It looks like it prefers the innermost thing, whether it's a list or a
> > string. Is that correct? If so, why/when/where is this kind of
> > "thing" useful in practice?
>
> It's useful to just click inside either a list or string,
> and choose "Select>List" or "Select>String" from the context menu,
> and it will select the right thing, either a list when clicked inside list,
> or string when clicked inside a string.
But the same can happen with a slit/string enclosed within a defun, or
a word enclosed withing a string or a list. Do we also need
defun-or-string or list-or-string-or-word or any other combinations?
Is this really the correct and useful analysis of this kind of
problems?
- Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/23
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/23
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/23
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/23
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/23
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/23
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/23
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/24
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/24
- RE: [External] : Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Drew Adams, 2021/09/24
- RE: [External] : Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/24
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/24
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/25
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/27
- Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/23