On 2010-08-30 19:02, Marc Weber wrote:

Is it intentional that when selecting

(message "arg")

using V% (on a parenthesis) that this only works top-down, but not bottom up? Bottom up leads to parse error or such.

C-x C-e (`eval-last-sexp') evaluates the S-exp before point. To evaluate the Visual selection, use `eval-region'. E.g., (global-set-key "\C-x\C-e" 'eval-region) -- Vegard