bug#32649: 27.0.50; up-list stops inside comment

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 32649 + notabug wontfix
close 32649
thanks

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Sep 07 2018, Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
>
>> On 07.09.2018 06:46, Leo Liu wrote:
>>> On 2018-09-06 21:04 +0200, Andreas Röhler wrote:
>>>> In scratch-buffer, cursor at "d" towards end of line 1
>>>>
>>>> (foo\n(a ;(b c d)
>>>> e) bar)
>>>>
>>>> M-- M-x up-list --called with negative argument-- stops at opening
>>>> paren inside comment.
>>>
>>> I am not following. What is the issue here?
>>
>> A list can't start resp. end inside a commented section.
>
> Sure it can.  Just because it's behind a comment char doesn't mean it's
> not a list.

The request here is to make the navigational command `up-list' ignore
commented out text.  From reading this thread, no one was very
enthusiastic about this proposal.

To the arguments presented by others for the correctness of this
behaviour, I can only add that the proposal would make the command
significantly less useful.

I'm therefore closing this as wontfix.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas