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Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number
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John Wiegley |
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Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number |
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Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:35:28 -0800 |
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>>>>> Oleh Krehel <address@hidden> writes:
> Is there any interest in making this behavior, i.e. treating each floating
> point number as a single sexp, the default (or at least easily customizable)
> in the core?
Changing core to move from syntactic-based to semantics-based movement was
brought up in another thread, concerning the meaning of ":" in ruby-mode:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-01/msg00125.html
These are deep changes, with many implications, and I don't think we're ready
for that just yet. If we want to support a more semantic notion of what
symbols and punctuations mean in various modes, we should think through all
the ramifications, and come up with a design that either replaces or extends
the current syntactic notions we use now.
So I'm not in favor of making any code changes today; but I am interested in
hearing proposals and ideas.
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- forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Oleh Krehel, 2016/01/12
- RE: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Herring, Davis, 2016/01/12
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Andreas Schwab, 2016/01/12
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number,
John Wiegley <=
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/01/12
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/17
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, John Wiegley, 2016/01/17
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/17
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, John Wiegley, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, John Wiegley, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/01/20