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24.5; inconsistent behaviour of `C-M-h (mark-defun)' in Emacs Lisp

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Message #11 received at 21072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> amu.edu.pl>
Cc: rfflrccrd <at> gmail.com, 21072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21072: 24.5;
 inconsistent behaviour of `C-M-h (mark-defun)' in Emacs Lisp
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 20:17:08 +0300

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> amu.edu.pl>
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:11:01 +0200
> Cc: 21072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 2015-07-16, at 08:12, Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Emacs maintainers,
> >
> > the documentation for `mark-defun' says:
> >
> >     The defun marked is the one that contains point or follows point.
> >
> > However, Emacs may mark the preceding defun instead, and it may
> > mark an unrelated preceding comment along with the defun.
> 
> Confirmed on GNU Emacs 25.1.50.8 (commit 912e915).

FWIW, I don't see why the behavior flagged "incorrect" is deemed
incorrect.  It looks correct to me.  In all of those examples point is
between 2 functions, so what exactly is "correct" is open to
discussion.

Am I missing something?

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