From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: matching parentheses Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:15:14 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <871wdxxq0d.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <46c9c63e$0$16098$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <87tzquw3fe.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187692008 7984 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2007 10:26:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:26:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 12:26:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INQwd-0002TP-Ko for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:26:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INQwd-0002MG-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:26:43 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!news2.euro.net!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fc3b1AwBT5OOoGjrZx1CfpnhPlM= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 23 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151139 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:24:15 -0400 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:46715 Archived-At: Maarten Bergvelt writes: > On 2007-08-20, Joel J. Adamson wrote: >> Ralf Angeli 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