Re: better `up-list' for emacs-lisp, fundamental modes

[Stefan Monnier]

> While I'd love the added functionality of being able to hop out of a
> string in general, the main point of my report has to do with parens,
> not strings, like this situation --

In text mode, there are no strings, which is why it appears to work.

> (concat "this-is-a-string" "--this-is-too")
>              ^    ;=> up-list: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 656 771

Try this:

  (concat "hello (" var ") there")
                   ^

with your suggestion of ignoring " (and hence in text-mode), in the above
scenario, you'd jump to the paren inside the string, which is wrong.


        Stefan