On 02.08.2017 23:39, Ryan Thompson wrote:
> Ok, that's good to know. That page claims that Emacs "highlights 
> confusing opening delimiters (those that ought to be quoted) in bold 
> red", but I'm not seeing that in this case. Is there some setting to 
> enable this, or is it likely that some other elisp package I have 
> installed is interfering with this highlighting? Or can Emacs not 
> catch this kind of misplaced paren in a string?
>

You might be interested in stuff like

ar-backward-defun


from

https://github.com/andreas-roehler/thingatpt-utils-core/blob/master/ar-subr.el

which at least enables to jump to beginning-of-defun in these cases.