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

[Joe Corneli]

      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.

   OK, I see that the situation is out of my depth...

Just one more thought, you might not like it - but usually my lisp
buffers are fontified.  The fontification routine does know whether
point is inside of a string or not.  So one could implement something
that would look at the text property.  (It might not work if
fontification was messed up and of course it wouldn't work for people
who don't use fontification, but it would probably work most of the
time for most people...)