Subject: bug#15998: 24.3; forward-sexp (scan-sexps) doesn't do well with some SEXPs

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:09:48 -0500

> 1) add `scan-sexps' an optional argument, `elisp-syntax'.

I don't think I want to add such elisp-specific hacks to the
scan-sexps code.  Better would be to change emacs-lisp-mode to set
forward-sexp-function to a function that handles those cases.

        Stefan