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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Stefan Monnier
>  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  ruijie@netyu.xyz,  juri@linkov.net,  Zachary
>  Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>,  62892@debbugs.gnu.org,  drew.adams@oracle.com
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 17:56:54 +0300
> 
> 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.

Did you read the doc string of C-M-SPC?  It does something
extra-special when transient-mark-mode is enabled and the region is
active.