From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Case Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp beginner's parens question ?? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:38:24 -0400 Message-ID: <1177641504.3152.12.camel@CASE> References: <87y7kfx783.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177641532 28081 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2007 02:38:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:38:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 27 04:38:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HhGMA-0003Jd-S3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:38:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhGRy-0004f4-5L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:44:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhGRl-0004ez-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhGRj-0004en-B0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhGRj-0004ek-6V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:44:31 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.36.81]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HhGLv-0005kd-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 73815 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2007 02:38:26 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Sum1I4CfMK+cYxt91u+ml6g1GXxIZ6XBmp/ckhXToygNxFrcqPiSLfpOXL9cOdYj3tB9o29a/TsHt4otHxRF036LltkS1UlFHGtgHDFPMlpThGHksiFN1/2tVI4538Kv1A2lquBqXm2Z9vS3s8M5nKj1InMAT54B8WS/3o3OF90= ; Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.4?) (billlinux@rogers.com@74.104.51.86 with plain) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2007 02:38:26 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: c2Fa_bwVM1m_HwNuXpUzjdlX7dyQr9momtMUQQggJ.dGsrMMT8THxreNp_XfD5v6vg-- In-Reply-To: <87y7kfx783.fsf@ambire.localdomain> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43248 Archived-At: Thanks for your reply Thi On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 21:31 +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () William Case > () Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:23:20 -0400 > > mental tips or tricks > > not very mental, but practical: i use mic-paren (by mic). see: > > http://www.gnuvola.org/software/personal-elisp/dist-lisp-index.html > > and search for "turn-on-mic-paren", for example. > I have looked at the site and downloaded the program(s) you have suggested. However, the "mental tips or tricks" was really a 'by the way' or an after thought question. What I was really asking was how the interpreter or emacs uses parenthesis or how parenthesis are nested. Put another way, I was trying to develop for myself a minds eye view of how check-parens works. Does check-parens just count left parens and compare that to the number of right parens to find an error, or does it actually examine nested parens pairs and work inword (or outward) ? -- Regards Bill