From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to delete the parens around a sexp? Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:58:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87lhbyc5of.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87vbb23nrn.fsf@mbork.pl> <87r3lqc63f.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442969459 14362 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2015 00:50:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:50:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 02:50:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeYGo-0002ZM-7W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:50:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44047 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeYGm-0003aE-Iw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:50:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeYGS-0003Zt-Ms for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeYGP-0003Cm-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeYGP-0003BL-BO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeYGJ-00020Z-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:50:19 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:50:19 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:50:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jhFrU01dHqcR8T2CCTRGTdYyzJY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107299 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > If you want do delete *matching* pairs in > programming, you would have to do the same, only > with `matching-paren' or so to find out what should > be deleted. That doesn't work as `matching-paren' tells what char matches in general, not the position of the char that actually matches the other char in the code. OK, then you can do it manually by searching and counting. But since you said you don't want this for code I'll drop the matter. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573