GNU bug report logs - #57212
29.0.50; [PATCH] Citizen's arrest of end-of-defun-moves-to-eol

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Message #14 received at 57212 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com
Cc: 57212 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57212: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Citizen's arrest of
 end-of-defun-moves-to-eol
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 09:06:29 +0200

dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com writes:

> -(defvar end-of-defun-moves-to-eol t
> -  "Whether `end-of-defun' moves to eol before doing anything else.
> -Set this to nil if this movement adversely affects the buffer's
> -major mode's decisions about context.")

I'm not much in favour of this variable either, but it fixes a real
problem (that end-of-defun is basically misdesigned -- we move point
before end-of-defun-function, which is just way too DWIM and doesn't
allow you to make end-of-defun-function behave).

A complete redesign would have been better, but I think we're not going
to do that, so I'm closing this bug report.

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