Re: Insert character pairs

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Juri Linkov wrote:
 > Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
 > >Juri Linkov wrote:
 > > > The command `promote-list' is basically opposite to `insert-parentheses',
 > > > so another possible name is `remove-parentheses', but it is misleading,
 > > > because it removes more than only enclosing parentheses.
 > >
 > > I don't find "delete" or "remove" misleading at all.
 >
 > "delete" or "remove" would not be misleading if they correctly
 > indicated what is removed, but the name may become too long,
 > e.g. "remove-parentheses-and-non-selected-text".

Right.  But remove- would be bad because no other commands use that
prefix.  I think delete- is better.

How about delete-surrounding-sexps, delete-sibling-sexps, or
just-one-sexp (in analogy to just-one-space)?

 > Perhaps `rise-up-sexp' is a better name.

I think "raise [up]" is the correct English verb (because it is
transitive, whereas "rise [up]" is intransitive).  But the Emacs command
should be named after its surface effect anyway, not its deep
(structural) effect.  Or are you proposing that insert-parentheses
should be named demote-sexp?  :-)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers