From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: "Herman, Géza" <geza.herman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Parenthesis matching should consider the kind of parenthesis during pair-search
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:34:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86eddhyhux.fsf@p200300d627023a995950cb2c1e40fde9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0hh6g1d.fsf@gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 12 2024, Herman, Géza wrote:
[...]
> this is not true, then Emacs works unexpectedly in my opinion. See this
> Makefile example: "$(info })" (this prints a } to stdout). In this case, emacs
[...]
> What do you think, shouldn't Emacs consider the kind of parenthesis when during
> searching for a pair? (in other words, it should ignore all other kinds of
> parentheses when it searches for a pair)
In my opinion, it should not consider the type of parenthesis, because I mess up
my parentheses much more often than I run into cases where I'm using a
parenthesis that is not part of a pair and where it's impossible to escape it.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-12 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-12 11:49 Parenthesis matching should consider the kind of parenthesis during pair-search Herman, Géza
2024-02-12 12:34 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2024-02-12 12:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-12 13:10 ` Herman, Géza
2024-02-12 14:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-12 14:10 ` Herman, Géza
2024-02-12 15:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-12 16:05 ` Herman, Géza
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