> Are you envisioning that we would create standard key bindings
> for these functions?

I was not suggesting that here. However,I think this would be ideal, especially given that mark-sexp is bound to three different keybindings (C-M-@, C-M-SPC, C-M-S-SPC). What is the process for finding out if a new keybinding would be appropriate? Or for determining whether enough people use a keybinding to keep it, vs changing it?

> Are you envisioning that users would bind some of these functions
> to keys themselves?

Yes. This is the main use-case I envisioned.

> Are you envisioning that users would call these functions from their
> own Lisp code?

This was not my main proposal, but users can do so if they want.

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  > > Attached is a patch with the following changes:
  > >
  > > * Uses the helper function to create mark-foo-forward, mark-foo-backward
  > > for word, paragraph, sexp, page, and defun.

I think these functions would make sense, but I wonder hwo they
would do users any good.

Are you envisioning that we would create standard key bindings
for these functions?

Are you envisioning that users would bind some of these functions
to keys themselves?

Are you envisioning that users would call these functions from their
own Lisp code?

Any of those would make sense in the abstract, but I doubt that any of
them would be convenient enough to make this change worth installing.



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