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bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIM
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT). |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:03:13 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:50:49 +0200
> Cc: 49944@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
> > We definitely have a bug here. The documentation in the elisp manual
> > says that the scanning is done "starting at START". You're saying it's
> > perfectly OK to start scanning at "LIMIT"? This violates the doc.
>
> This is what all function like this say. To take patient zero --
> narrow-to-region:
>
> ---
> When calling from Lisp, pass two arguments START and END:
> positions (integers or markers) bounding the text that should
> remain visible.
> ---
>
> Nothing here about allowing END to come before START, but it does allow
> that, and so do most (all?) similar commands.
Indeed, if the results are predictable, I see no reason not to support
START and END in any order, as we do in many places.
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Alan Mackenzie, 2021/08/08
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/08/08
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Alan Mackenzie, 2021/08/08
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/08/09
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Alan Mackenzie, 2021/08/09
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/08/10
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT).,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Stefan Monnier, 2021/08/10
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/08/10
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Stefan Monnier, 2021/08/10
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/10
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Stefan Monnier, 2021/08/10
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/10
- bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/08/11
bug#49944: parse-partial-sexp fails to signal an error when (> START LIMIT)., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/08/21