Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Apr 10 2008, David Hansen wrote:
> I have bound `(' to insert pair globally.  I don't know of any case
> where I want non balanced parenthesis (except when writing a mail about
> the use of (non) balanced parenthesis ;).

`case' in shell scripts.  Yes, POSIX also allow ( *.bar ), but old Bourne
shells don't.

  case $foo in *.bar ) baz;; esac

That said, I think the global bindings for M-( and M-) are the right
thing.

Drew Adams wrote:
> It can be surprising to get an error "Unbalanced parentheses" 18,
> 5795" or "Containing expression ends prematurely" or some such if you
> accidentally hit M-) in the minibuffer or a text file. This is the
> kind of thing that can frighten users unnecessarily.

I don't think such an error is very common.  More or less every
unindented key stroke can cause somewhat unexpected results, but these
cause no damage and I think its unlikely to type M-) accidentally: you
need to hit Alt+Shift+Number, at least with US or German keyboard
layout.

Bye, Reiner.
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