Re: beginning-of-defun (again)

[David Kastrup]

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