From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Two Emacs challenges Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:42:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87ver0jvme.fsf@www.williamxu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150537368 6303 80.91.229.2 (17 Jun 2006 09:42:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:42:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 17 11:42:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrXKC-00076H-F2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrXKB-0007mm-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrXJy-0007j6-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:42:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrXJw-0007fL-Kp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrXJw-0007f4-E2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:42:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FrXTk-000315-WB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FrXJm-00072Y-8a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:42:14 +0200 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:42:14 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:42:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAEAAAAAUCAMAAAAKqMsNAAAAwFBMVEUfIB4qLCk8PjxAQT9E RkNHSUZKS0lOUE1SVFFWV1VWWFVaW1lcXltfYV5kZWNpa2hsbmtub21vcW5ydHF3eXZ5e3h7fXp+ f32Agn+EhoOGiIWKjImNjouTlZKWmJWZm5icnpugop+jpaKnqaarraqwsq6ztbG4ure7vbq+wL3D xcLJy8jP0c3R09DT1dLV19TY2tfe4Nzf4d7h5ODj5eLn6ebq7Ont7+vv8e3y9PHz9fL19/T3+fb4 +/f8/vv+//wkcdDPAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAAB3RJTUUH1gIaAyMPYYdloAAAAZlJ REFUOMudVH9TgkAQxWhqGBrqSueSQM2QUgQERxKBt9//W3V3IJKZf7A33I+927ePtxwaESWrveip oD6mEW3m4LkYbr77AWAXZ/NFaDkD+3Hfi8H7IjR8PS90fPI+ALEF6JkRFrd4m10/nH1fAvBmlAxR OEx7+cCV6O10OnQuAODgfE4qACVvw7dVPaylhbVPnMDmnNFWiSiNRDult1M1+APbtses9Yf+b4Yz 7rxKEUlGdzcwTuqceiqyhq07k6eqQplcm8Bzpv15qSo/8DjP5XRlEXktM49L3AlTJjgWJtE40Cjw O7YnvLOhbjEWSwr3URSLeDwlhDK3DtKnCAh8lA8Evm40aE0tx6mciWloeKgFlI8pfe4Lk00wgFGQ WWro6t7oXWsgY1ithuo2vCmGSiSmEWNLqgHc1E1oXR0B5llbORwB8okddZIc91UVUHrYjWCeKLSl 79D6Ss/i630FkE6WLvPvgvOC/ALAn88UzWUi3BXgHyv3+kXAv7eRdgbIKHm07QkAjMJpAL6Mev6R BMJOFrpEH4AfGukf4kwTGH0AAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DPHF3R81wFR1INRohujdUwbBobg= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35522 Archived-At: William Xu writes: > Leon writes: > > [...] > >> (2) pairs >> >> How to bind keys such as (, [, {, " etc to perform such function >> >> When type once, it will insert a pair while twice insert itself for >> example: `[' will insert `[]' and leave the cursor in the middle > > Set this, > > (setq skeleton-pair t) > (global-set-key (kbd "(") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) > (global-set-key (kbd "[") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) > (global-set-key (kbd "{") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) > This is a very nice function. Thanks. >> while `[[' will insert `['? > > i don't understand why you would like this. Suppose we want to write a > nested list, like '((a) (b)), same insert scheme is still useful. Sometimes I just want to insert a missing ( or [ etc before a word or something. But now skeleton-pair-insert-maybe can handle this well. -- Leon