Subject: Re: bug#62892: proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and backward on command

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 17:54:20 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 17:39:44 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> > Maybe the new building block is useful enough (i.e. can be used in
> > existing code, thus reducing overall complexity)?
> 
> That'd be preferable, certainly.  Enlarging the set of the commands is
> not my preference.

Btw, these new commands keep the complicated, hard-to-remember MO of
mark-sexp: they do different things depending on whether
transient-mark-mode is on or off and whether the region is or isn't
active.  Why is this a Good Thing?