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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:07:03 +0300

> From: Zachary Kanfer <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:04:30 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> 
> It's able to be worked around, yes -- but I think it's easier to have separate methods for forward and
> backward, the way we do for so many other commands. For one, having separate functions makes it
> easier to start moving backward, (rather than giving a -1 prefix argument.

Adding functions and commands is not free, it does come with a price:
they need to be documented in our two manuals (something your patch
neglected to do, btw), users need to learn them, etc.

So I wonder whether on balance it is justified to add this.  Lars,
Stefan: any comments or opinions?

Does anyone else have an opinion?