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Re: backward-up-list
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stl |
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Re: backward-up-list |
Date: |
09 Aug 2002 10:38:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
> > Of course if backward-up-list can work all within the string
> > (in which it currently already DTRT), it should still DTRT.
> >
> > I don't think so. I think that reliably moving out of the string
> > would be a more useful feature than operating on parentheses within a
> > string's contents.
>
> I very often use sexp-operations like backward-up-list inside strings
> (and even across strings, although it's only by luck that it works ;-).
> It's very handy when jumping around regexp groups, for example.
I thought backward-up-list does not work inside a string? Actually thats why
i came up with the first post...
> Maybe this usage pattern is unusual, I don't know, but I do know that
> I would miss it enough to write a little function to recover the "old"
> behavior rather than get used to the new behavior.
Maybe a variable could be used to switch between the two possibilities?
And a toogle function so that one could bind it to a key if need.
Stephan