On 04/09/2014 05:41 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Good point.  It would call for things like mark-sexp to handle comments
> not as white space.  But part of the reason is to avoid comment-crossing
> and things like that, e.g. with
> 
>      x = '(';  // That's comment.
             a           b
> 
> If you start from the end of line (and assume a no-string-crossing
> behavior), you don't want C-M-u to jump just before the open paren.

Good point --- I didn't expect that to happen. Also surprising is that
backward-sexp at b jumps to a. I wish we wouldn't do that.