Re: Scanning parenthesis in string/comment

[Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> I’m writing an expand-region-like function, which expands region by logical entities, like word-at-point, list-at-point, etc. Say I have this string
>
> "Filter out invalid regions in REGIONS regarding ORIG.
> ORIG is the current position. Each region is (BEG . END).”
>
> And point is at the opening parenthesis, how do I detect this balanced
> parenthesis pair and expand the region over it? syntax-pass and forward-list
> only works with lists outside of strings and comments, IIUC.
>
> Yuan

Based on what I remember reading from the relevant info pages and
docstrings, is it possible that you start a new syntax scan that starts
*at point* and ends *before the ending quotes*?  IIUC the function
`parse-partial-sexp' might be what you should look into next.

Best,


RY