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proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and backward on command

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From: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: zkanfer <at> gmail.com, juri <at> linkov.net, ruijie <at> netyu.xyz, 62892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#62892: proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and backward on command
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 18:41:22 +0300

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
>> 
>> I'm not sure if that's the preferred behavior, but I do think that
>> consistently between the different marking commands is a good thing.
>
> Why do you think there should be consistency here?  These are
> different commands which target different use-cases.
>

I see, so `mark-word` and `mark-sexp` differ from `mark-paragraph`,
`mark-defun` and `mark-page` by design.  That's apparent from the Info
manual on second look.  Thanks.

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