GNU bug report logs - #636
23.0.60; Read syntax error while byte-compiling

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Message #58 received at 636-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>, 636-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
        Michael Olson <mwolson <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#636: Please fix before the release of 23.1
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:42:22 -0400

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> The way I see it, it's a bug in `beginning-of-defun'.  The docstring
> says that a non-nil `beginning-of-defun-function' finds the pertinent
> place, but beginning-of-defun then moves point somewhere else.  I HATE
> things that are ostensibly "helpful", but in reality are dumbing down,
> and mainly just foul things up.

This is part of the baggage in beginning-of-defun regarding whether
column zero is the beginning of a defun.  Changing this now might be
unwise, so for the moment I've simply revised the docstring of
beginning-of-defun for extra clarity.

I've also changed cc-defs.el to use beginning-of-defun-raw, which is a
more direct and side-effect free test of beginning-of-defun-function,
and added a save-excursion for extra plus safety ;-)

[Also, closing bug#636.]

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