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24.1.50; Weird names and unhelpful docstrings for some python function

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From: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus <at> gmail.com>
To: Fabián Ezequiel Gallina <fabian <at> anue.biz>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>, 11899 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11899: 24.1.50; Weird names and unhelpful docstrings for some python function
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:08:29 +0200

On Jul 16, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Fabián Ezequiel Gallina wrote:
> On 07/13/2012 09:20 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>     If something:
>>>         do_this()
>>>         do_that()
>>> If the pointer is at the start of the if statement, and the user issues
>>> python-nav-forward-sentence he must be taken after the do_that() statement.
>> That sounds like sexp-based navigation, then.
>> 
>>> python-nav-{backward,forward}-sentence that would navigate blocks of code.
>> I don't think "sentence" is a good word choice since there is no
>> accepted meaning of a "sentence" in the context of python code (or code
>> in general), AFAIK.
>> 
>> If you want to bind these commands to the same keys as
>> for/backward-sentence, that's fine, but better give them names related
>> to what they do, rather than to to this key-mapping choice.
>> 
>> 
>>         Stefan
> I just pushed some new navigation commands with proper documentation and names. Also there's a specialized forward-sexp-function included.
> 
> All of this is included in revno 109105.

Excellent.  Thanks.

-Ivan

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