From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:29:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87d00remqp.fsf@web.de> References: <20201105154537.GA24492@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8013"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z/X8ImBoGPu44KLseRic1+zSrrw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 18:31:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kaj6Q-00020O-5a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:31:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55042 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaj6P-0002vc-6s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaj4X-0002Ix-Oe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:33236 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaj4V-0001fH-Rh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:29:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kaj4Q-000AOH-6S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:29:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/05 08:51:10 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125034 Archived-At: Christopher Dimech writes: > Don't people find it tough to immediately figure out which bracket > closes what? But if readers will thank me, I would certainly comply. > I come from the C-Language as is evident. My impression: parens are for code editing, for making it easy to write syntactically correct code. And as it has been mentioned, Emacs makes that easy by providing highlighting and paren moving commands etc. For reading (by humans) indentation is more helpful. Indentation more or less directly reflects paren depth. And to make code even more readable, some people prefer to use `rainbow-delimiters'. I guess you would like it. Michael.