From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: paren-close-dwim: elisp function of a newbie; feedback welcome
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:38:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52449B36.4080009@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txh7gxyt.fsf@newsguy.com>
>> (defun paren-close-dwim ()
>> "Insert closing parenthesis from syntax table.
>> Use a normal parenthesis if not inside any."
>> (interactive "*")
>> (insert (or (ignore-errors
>> (save-excursion (backward-up-list)
>> (cdr (syntax-after (point)))))
>> ?\))))
>
> I'm a total illiterate in elisp but the narrative so far sounds like a
> this code might do something really useful.
>
> Can someone describe briefly how this would work, maybe with a small
> example, when repairing my own perl code?
I'm not sure what you mean about "repairing ... code". This command
simply inserts ')', ']', or '}' (and perhaps '>' or so) to match the
most recent unclosed ([{<.
(If it is "really useful", know that it's not my idea; you just quoted
my reimplementation of Florian's code.)
Davis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 11:46 paren-close-dwim: elisp function of a newbie; feedback welcome Florian
2013-09-25 12:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-25 17:32 ` Davis Herring
2013-09-26 19:54 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-26 20:38 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2013-09-26 20:44 ` Florian
2013-09-27 5:51 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-29 9:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-27 21:33 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-29 10:11 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-09-27 21:30 ` Harry Putnam
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