Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     The mark-sexp command recently acquired the (very nifty) feature that
>     repeating the command extends the selection (so C-M-SPC C-M-SPC marks
>     two sexps).
>
>     WIBNI the other mark-foo commands behaved similarly?
>
> That would be consistent.  Want to write it?

Here is another version.  This version also does mark-defun, and
modifies etc/NEWS and the emacs manual.

Sorry, Pavel, for munging your name in the ChangeLog file.

Okay to commit?  (With the right ChangeLog file.)

kai
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