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Re: thing-at-point's meaning of current sexp vs. up-list's: which is cor
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Davis Herring |
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Re: thing-at-point's meaning of current sexp vs. up-list's: which is correct? |
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:47:19 -0600 |
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> If point is on a closing delimiter, then thing-at-point says the delimiter is
> part of the current sexp, but up-list says the delimiter is part of the sexp
> that contains the current sexp.
Point isn't on a character, but between them; the box cursor is drawn on
the character following point. Therefore when the cursor is on a ),
point is definitely inside the parentheses.
Davis
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