From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heime Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Matching parenthesis for long constructs Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 18:57:58 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34648"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Drew Adams , Pierre Rouleau , Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 20:58:38 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 1s58yU-0008r0-Ip for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 20:58:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s58y0-0003YF-CF; Thu, 09 May 2024 14:58:08 -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 1s58xy-0003Y0-QN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 14:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-4324.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.24]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s58xw-0007TP-Kv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 14:58:06 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1715281082; x=1715540282; bh=XCz1etNZ2XA7VYzzJtXSHZCNXWyFBcve08K6bm58/eE=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=iNq0pWfNtH4MH2OCWvmpepGVEbObdXR4aMBoJFMX74bS49ZBCthNmLsLVSsBKRn4M YGa0X0Ke+WaiwUgSjAf9rRoCs8DMD+kOYFLmj7jz3RGW9zR2b8ign3dICJp0jxkqFn Le9BTp2JPsYZzbh8NULMOXoYN1nzlAyN8gY0Vfkb5eAWsgnAzlmjlKQeLjhe+UpU35 P0Z9GDrVAAPflwv8YNuR2BH1dkTVxHFM6k/x49VnuuwM+Mp6nBVwixtudgUGv2efQa yFQjmZi1NsWTWoJidrgLMBlA8MtS19gsGjONSqlSCO8cQRDb0ClU3CAZ9mYlSdqHT0 5YHAFuTs8dlxQ== In-Reply-To: Feedback-ID: 57735886:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: dd705f14a09a9ba112d4e3b57aa59e2d78b627a6 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.43.24; envelope-from=heimeborgia@protonmail.com; helo=mail-4324.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:146629 Archived-At: On Friday, May 10th, 2024 at 6:24 AM, Yuri Khan wro= te: > On Thu, 9 May 2024 at 23:59, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote: >=20 > > Try going to the closing parenthesis of a pcase construct where the clo= sing > > parenthesis start to blink. You are effectively within the construct th= at > > encloses the pcase (the construct at the next higher level) and you get= shown > > that rather than the pcase construct in the echo area. > >=20 > > You cannot tell what you are closing off. >=20 >=20 > 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. Most times I am changing existing code, and encounter this problem whilst removing things. I quite like the idea of typing programs from a print=20 magazine like byte magazine from 1975. Quite a shame people can't do that anymore.