RE: [External] : forward-sexp

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> M-x forward-sexp RET works from the beginning of
> the first line, but does nothing from the beginning at the second.
> Are there reasons for this?
> 
> [ asdf ]
> [(&asdf]

The syntactic definition of "sexp" depends
on the context, e.g., the current major mode.
Without knowing how a "sexp" is defined in
your context, we can't help much.

That said, trying it in a Lisp mode tells
me that an error is raised when I try it at
the beginning of the second line, because:

Debugger entered--Lisp error:
(scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses" 450 459)
  scan-sexps(450 1)
  forward-sexp(1)
  funcall-interactively(forward-sexp 1)
  call-interactively(forward-sexp nil nil)
  command-execute(forward-sexp)

IOW, the `(' char isn't balanced with a `)'
char, so parsing to the end of the `[' sexp
isn't possible.