Re: Possible emacs bug.

[Edric M Ellis]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, charlieb@zoom.co.uk wrote:
> I have discovered a "feature" but I strongly suspect I am not the
> first. Using emacs 21.2.1 on win32 and the version with debian woody
> in lisp-mode the lisp-eval-defun (M-C-x) does not eval the defun if
> the indenetation is incorrect. [...]

This seems to be because of the way ``beginning-of-defun'' works. It's
looking for a "(" at the start of a line. If you want to force it to
look for "(defun" at the beginning of a line, you could do this:

(setq beginning-of-defun-function (lambda nil 
                                    (re-search-backward "^(defun")))

Cheers,

Edric.

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