bug#5588: 23.1.50; C-M-d inside string in Lisp mode gets me out of string into unrelated sexp

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr@freebits.de> writes:

> In a .el, or .lisp file with content
>
>   (frob "foo")
>
>   (bar
>     ;; Like "Invoking
>     ;; external command".
>     (quux))
>
> Move point inside the string "foo", and press C-M-d.
>
> Emacs will move point to (|quux.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I've now made the command signal an error in Emacs 29 in these cases.

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