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Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:43:29 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:59:18 +0300
> 
> > It looks like it prefers the innermost thing, whether it's a list or a
> > string.  Is that correct?  If so, why/when/where is this kind of
> > "thing" useful in practice?
> 
> It's useful to just click inside either a list or string,
> and choose "Select>List" or "Select>String" from the context menu,
> and it will select the right thing, either a list when clicked inside list,
> or string when clicked inside a string.

But the same can happen with a slit/string enclosed within a defun, or
a word enclosed withing a string or a list.  Do we also need
defun-or-string or list-or-string-or-word or any other combinations?

Is this really the correct and useful analysis of this kind of
problems?



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