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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>, tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Defun Self Documentation
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 08:15:54 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5fcc7561-be7f-46b4-baa7-ab430ade5e74@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-1a8c6a15-9a96-4e4c-a805-bc7883381608-1604591754030@3c-app-mailcom-bs14>

> Don't people find it tough to immediately figure out which bracket closes
> what?  But if readers will thank me, I would certainly comply.  I come from
> the C-Language as is evident.

No.

Turn on `show-paren-mode'.

See also option `blink-matching-paren' and the
other `blink-matching-paren-*' options.

Double-click `mouse-1' on a paren, to select it,
its match, and the text between them.

`C-x C-x' bounces the cursor from end to end of
the region.

If code is formatted normally then you can
pretty much count on the ))))) at the end of a
sexp to balance what you'd expect.  Otherwise,
someone (e.g. you) would already have fixed that.

There's zero reason to put an opening or closing
paren on a line by itself, unless you want to
indicate something specially or add a comment in
a particular way.

`C-M-q' indents an entire sexp (e.g. a defun) in
a conventional way.  It, `TAB', and other keys
know Lisp syntax.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-05 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-05 15:16 Defun Self Documentation Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 15:45 ` tomas
2020-11-05 15:55   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:00     ` tomas
2020-11-05 16:10       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 18:08       ` Jean Louis
2020-11-05 19:34         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:15     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-11-05 16:27       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 16:51       ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-05 16:59         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 17:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 17:29     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 17:50       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 19:35         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 19:22     ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-05 19:38       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-05 19:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-05 21:02           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  5:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06  7:07               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  7:18                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  7:45                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06  8:17                     ` tomas
2020-11-06  8:38                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  8:45                         ` tomas
2020-11-09  3:22                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  8:44                     ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 11:54                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 12:12                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 17:36                         ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 18:03                           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09  3:49                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 18:39                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-09  4:00                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:48                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:45                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:29                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 11:10                   ` Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different) Jean Louis
2020-11-09  4:01                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 17:02               ` Defun Self Documentation Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 18:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 18:50                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:07                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 19:23                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:41                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 18:41   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-06  9:10 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 15:33 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 16:07   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09  4:08   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  4:26     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  4:39       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09 13:32         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-11-11 15:34           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 15:51         ` Eli Zaretskii

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