GNU bug report logs - #62892
proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and backward on command

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Message #104 received at 62892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: zkanfer <at> gmail.com
Cc: ruijie <at> netyu.xyz, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 62892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#62892: proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and
 backward on command
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 17:54:20 +0300

> Cc: ruijie <at> netyu.xyz, juri <at> linkov.net, zkanfer <at> gmail.com, 62892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  drew.adams <at> oracle.com
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 17:39:44 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > 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?

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