GNU bug report logs - #5588
23.1.50; C-M-d inside string in Lisp mode gets me out of string into unrelated sexp

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr <at> freebits.de>

Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:52:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 3416

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 5588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr <at> freebits.de>
Cc: 5588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5588: 23.1.50; C-M-d inside string in Lisp mode gets me out
 of string into unrelated sexp
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 21:12:52 +0200

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr <at> freebits.de> writes:

> In a .el, or .lisp file with content
>
>   (frob "foo")
>
>   (bar
>     ;; Like "Invoking
>     ;; external command".
>     (quux))
>
> Move point inside the string "foo", and press C-M-d.
>
> Emacs will move point to (|quux.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I've now made the command signal an error in Emacs 29 in these cases.

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