GNU bug report logs - #15061
24.3; forward-sexp behaves inaccurately when the cursor is at the end of a string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Coventry <alex_c <at> MIT.EDU>

Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 15:39:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.3

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 15061 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Coventry <alex_c <at> MIT.EDU>
Cc: 15061 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15061: 24.3;
 forward-sexp behaves inaccurately when the cursor is at the end of a
 string
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:48:05 -0400

Alex Coventry wrote:

>   (("foo" baz) quux "bar")
>
> Move the cursor to the second quote character.  In the pipe notation
> used in the paredit documentation[1], that corresponds to
>
>   (("foo|" baz) quux "bar")
>
> Type C-M-f ("forward-sexp").  Cursor will now be on the "b" in "bar":
>
>   (("foo" baz) quux "|bar")

C-h f forward-sexp:

   This command assumes point is not in a string or comment.
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