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
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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
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2007-08-20 7:46 matching parentheses Alain Muls
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