Re: backward-up-list confused by commented out double-quote

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 01:58

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I did misunderstand before.

The Lisp commands all work by parsing from where point is.  They have
no way of knowing the true context.  I don't think the behavior in
this particular case can be fixex without a major rewrite.  I don't
plan to do that myself in the foreseeable future, because the
practical magnitude of problems like this one is very small.

If someone else wants to work on such a rewrite, one thing you should
know is that it must not change the conceptual specs of the existing
primitives.  It needs to be essentially a drop-in replacement.
Otherwise it would raise additional issues, and the work of
considering or dealing with those other issues could easily be more
than I could spare, so I'd have to defer the issue, probably for years.

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From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
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Subject: Re: backward-up-list confused by commented out double-quote
Date: 25 Aug 1994 21:58:32 -0400
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