Re: backward-up-list

[Andreas Roehler]

Stefan Monnier schrieb:
> > Don't understand behaviour of `backward-up-list'
> > in `emacs-lisp-mode' if inside a string.
> >     
>
> backward-up-list doesn't know you start from inside a string and instead
> assumes you start from outside of any string or comment.  So when it
> bumps into the opening " it thinks this is a closing " and treats the text
> before that as being inside a string.  Try it with:
>
>        (foor "an open ( inside a string"
>              blabla
>              "try it from >>HERE<< for fun.")
>
>   
> > Bug?
> >     
>
> Misfeature.
>
>   
Not letal.

 (while (in-string-p)
   (backward-char 1))