Subject: Re: bug#15014: 24.3.50; In text-mode, incorrect forward-sexp causes delete-pair malfunction

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 21:23:44 -0400

> In a file with text-mode, try forward-sexp across a double quoted
> string: "foo". Unlike in programming modes, point goes before the
> closing double quote instead of after.

In text-mode, double-quotes are not considered as pair-delimiters, so
the behavior is "the expected one".  E.g. point stops after the second
`o', because the sexp it skipped is the symbol `foo' and the " are
considered as irrelevant punctuation.

So, IIUC you're arguing for marking " as having paired-delimiter syntax,
as is the case in most programming modes.

        Stefan