Re: beginning-of-defun (again)

[Andreas Röhler]

 On 31.10.2015 00:14, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>    >  With emacs -Q, C-M-a from behind example below, stops at "(bar)",
>    >  missing the beginning of function.
>
>    >  (defun foo ()
>    >     (insert "
>    >  (bar)"))
>
> Our convention is that you should write it this way:
>
>     (defun foo ()
>        (insert "
>     \(bar)"))

A convention which probably predates Aristoteles :)
Working-by-convention is rather a social thing...

That design was a real nuisance  when generating and writing functions 
on the fly.
Sure, it's possible to live with it. But why not remove that constraint, 
if possible?