From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Matching parenthesis for long constructs Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 20:29:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87wmo2ltzm.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11722"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SLsyNdXIlyQK/maW0EEZTfJsxhk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 10 23:45:34 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s5Y3a-0002nb-D5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 May 2024 23:45:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s5Y2m-0000b6-IV; Fri, 10 May 2024 17:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s58W4-0000k3-Dw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 14:29:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s58Vy-0006uZ-Ft for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 14:29:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s58Vw-00019m-97 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 20:29:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 10 May 2024 17:44:42 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146663 Archived-At: Yuri Khan wrote: >> Try going to the closing parenthesis of a pcase construct >> where the closing parenthesis start to blink. You are >> effectively within the construct that encloses the pcase >> (the construct at the next higher level) and you get shown >> that rather than the pcase construct in the echo area. >> >> You cannot tell what you are closing off. > > Are you typing programs from a print magazine? Because in > real programming you close off parentheses as you open them > (or electric-pair-mode or smartparens does it for you), then > you go inside and add inner forms, keeping parentheses > balanced most of the time. He is talking about a very common situation with Lisp programming in Emacs when the left (opening) parenthesis is in a part of the buffer not within the current window. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal