GNU bug report logs - #15848
24.3.50; cperl-mode + which-function: Improve reporting (corner case)

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Message #83 received at 15848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15848: 24.3.50;
 cperl-mode + which-function: Improve reporting (corner case)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:41:18 -0500

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hmm.... Losing something to gain some thing else doesn't seem good to
> me.

I don't follow. What's being lost?

> I cursorily looked at cperl-mode.  My gut feeling is that which-function
> decides the box it is in by looking at the markers that is returned.  So
> we may have to examine what value goes in to the marker.  

Yes, which-function just looks at the markers in the imenu index.
Changing those markers' positions is exactly what the patch does.

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