Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I can't tell if the failure to move out of the parentheses is by design, >> but the error message is misleading. > > One of the design constraints we've imposed on ourselves is that operations > like up-list and friends should ideally work "locally" without having to > parse the buffer from the very beginning > > Now you're going to say "but it's highlighted as a string, so Emacs knows > it's a string". Well, yes, kind of. But now users have found advantages to > the misfeature, and font-lock highlighting is not guaranteed to be > available and even less guaranteed to be correct, and .... > > So let's call it a known misfeature. It should be improved in the future.
Well, I didn't even expect it to be fixable, as I suspected that it was a design limitation. However I'd like this to be documented in either the doc string or the error message. That would make it a _known_ misfeature, in my opinion. :) regards, Nikolaj Schumacher _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
