Re: C-u prefix behavior of TAB broken

[Juri Linkov]

>> I have bound a key to the command that calls `indent-for-tab-command'
>> with a prefix argument, and when I accidently type it a close parenthesis,
>> it fails with the error "Containing expression ends prematurely".
>
> That sounds correct to me...

This is correct, but I thought this is not very useful.

>> I think it would be better not to fail at such places, and just indent
>> the current line without indenting the following sexp.
>
> Wouldn't it be a bit more elegant for you to change your command to
> do something like:
>
>    (condition-case err (indent-for-tab-command t)
>      (error (indent-for-tab-command)))

This is not a problem for me, but I doubted that displaying an error message
would be useful for someone who types `C-u TAB' at the wrong place.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/