Re: On the behavior of `c-beginning-of-defun'

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Guanpeng!

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:19:44AM +0800, Herbert Euler wrote:
> >Please try out the amended version and let me know if anything's not
> >right.

> I did not test all cases but only the case that function
> `c-beginning-of-defun' fails.  I think it is almost Ok.  However,
> please try the following case, it might be a bug.

Yes.  It's a bug.

> Suppose `-!-' indicates the position of point.
 
[ .... ]
  
>  But if point is just after ``[]'':
> 
>    /* 1. K&R C.  */
> 
>    /* This will not get correct result until the bug in CC mode is fixed.
>       See
>       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-12/msg01341.html  
> */
>    int
>    main1 (argc, argv)
>         int argc;
>         char *argv[]-!-;
>    {
>      /* ...  */
>    }
> 
> `c-beginning-of-defun' moves point to the start of the file, rather
> than the desired position.

I've patched cc-cmds.el, which should fix the bug, and committed this to
savannah.  Please try it out again!

> This is the only problem I can see until now.  Thank you very much.
 
> Regards,
> Guanpeng Xu

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Alan Mackenzie (Ittersbach, Germany).