Re: Matching parenthesis for long constructs

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

On Friday, May 10th, 2024 at 2:00 AM, Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 8:34 AM Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > When I have long constructs the current way that parenthesis are
> > highlighted
> > is not very useful because the matching parenthesis resides outside the
> > work
> > window. Are there future possibilities or capabilities to address this ?
> > 
> > There's already plenty of ways to handle this.
> 
> 1- You can spend your money and buy a monitor that tilts vertically and use
> small fonts.

I cannot recognise words in small font.  It is a problem even with a large monitor.
In a few decades, you might find you have a problem as well. 

> 2- OR you can use time to learn:
> - coding techniques to reduce code size, but mostly

This is for most things not possible 

> - navigation techniques with the editor you use.
> Emacs is wonderful for Lisp editing.
> - Without anything added: use C-M-<right> to move from ( to ) and
> 
> C-M-<left> from ) to (

I do not want myself to move from one to another.  But to display for me
the line content of the corresponding match whilst staying at point.
 
> - Learn how to use Lispy. Typing 'd' with point before ( or after )
> does the same.
> 
> When I started learning Emacs, I wrote documentation for myself.
> I learn better by reading, and writing about it.
> I organized the information in topics while I learned and the way,
> for me, was to organize the info in tables.
> You may be interested in the tables I created for Emacs Lisp and Lispy.
> They are part of my PEL project.
> 
> See :
> - PEL @ Github: https://github.com/pierre-rouleau/pel#readme
> - PDF files (use a browser that renders them, not download them):
> - Index (links to all others):
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pierre-rouleau/pel/master/doc/pdf/-index.pdf
> - Emacs Lisp table:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pierre-rouleau/pel/master/doc/pdf/pl-emacs-lisp.pdf
> - Lispy:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pierre-rouleau/pel/master/doc/pdf/plm-lispy.pdf
> 
> You should be able to find all you need.
> --
> /Pierre