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#52003
Unexpected advising behavior due to recursive implementation
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Message #17 received at 52003 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Yes but what would that mean? The best we can do is to promise that a function F, when called in a manner consistent with the documentation, behaves accordingly. We cannot guarantee the absence of calls to F, can we?
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> But unless I'm mistaken, that's what you are unhappy about: `forward-sexp` may call itself when you call it. A lot of other code calls that function as part of their implementation. Don't they cause trouble, or is it just the recursive call?
Well, my initial concern was the (new) recursive call, which adds
another layer of complexity for advising. I now see too that an advice
on such a deep rooted function is kind of madness anyway. In fact I
would need to make a distinction between the interactive modes both ways.
> What are you trying to do? Can't you define a mode-specific forward-sexp-function?
The problem I'm trying to solve is, that the cursor in evil normal state
is not between chars but _on_ a char. Moving to the end of a sexp in
lisp I would expect the cursor to be on the closing paren instead of
behind it. There was already an advice planted on
`elisp--precedent-sexp` to achieve this effect for `eval-last-sexp`. It
basically only moves the point one char forward if in normal mode before
eval-last-sexp, hence the sexp including the paren on which the cursor
rests will be evaluated instead of the thing before the cursor/paren.
I wanted to transport this behaviour to the motion-sexp commands and
initially I was naive enough to think that this is a low hanging fruit,
because I could take the same advice function and add it to
backward/forward-sexp.
In essence I would like to move the visible cursor by a single char in
one or the other direction before and after one or more
`forward-sexp`-based commands are executed. But I'm not sure anymore if
this is really worth the effort :-)
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