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hs-forward-sexp design issue

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 15443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15443: hs-forward-sexp design issue
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 01:59:51 +0100

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:

> hs-forward-sexp insists to be called with an argument
>
>     (funcall hs-forward-sexp-func arg)))
>
> That way it's not possible to instrument hs-forward-sexp-func just saying
>
> (search-forward "something")
>
> Instead
>
> (lambda (arg)(search-forward "something"))
>
> would be required.
>
> As it's a function to be set by modes/users
>
> life will be easier if this argument is optional.

The argument has to be a function -- it can't just be a form.  That
would be very odd.  So I don't think there's anything to do here, and
I'm closing the bug report.

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