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From: Tim X <tcross@dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: matching parentheses
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:15:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wdxxq0d.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnfcjlti.jcb.bergv@u19.math.uiuc.edu

Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu> writes:

> On 2007-08-20, Joel J. Adamson <jadamson@partners.org> wrote:
>> Ralf Angeli <dev.null@caeruleus.net> writes:
>>
>>> * Alain Muls (2007-08-20) writes:
>>>
>>>> How does one insert automatically matching parentheses in emacs when in 
>>>> auctex mode?
>>>
>>> (info "(autotype)Inserting Pairs")
>>
>> How automatic do you want it?  I press "M-(" and I get () with the
>> point inside the parentheses.  Here, I'll do it again: ()
>
> Interesting. I knew about C-c-{ in Auctex but not about M-( in
> general. Why the different mechanisms in very similar cases?

Given that emacs uses a lisp dialect as an extension language and the ()
are so central to lisp syntax, I suspect that making M-( general was
considered a good idea. Only a guess though.

Tim

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4991.1187599974.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-20 14:01 ` matching parentheses Maarten Bergvelt
2007-08-20 16:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-08-20 16:56   ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-08-20 18:04     ` Maarten Bergvelt
2007-08-21  8:15       ` Tim X [this message]
2020-10-03 10:39 Matching Parentheses Christopher Dimech
2020-10-03 10:53 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-03 11:25   ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-03 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-03 13:11   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-03 18:39 ` Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-20  7:46 matching parentheses Alain Muls

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