Re: RE: Defun Self Documentation

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

Following your argument through, and with show-paren-mode and blink-matching-paren-*,
I agree that it is not a problem having parentheses together.


> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 at 5:15 PM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, tomas@tuxteam.de
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: RE: Defun Self Documentation
>
> > 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.
>
> No.
>
> Turn on `show-paren-mode'.
>
> See also option `blink-matching-paren' and the
> other `blink-matching-paren-*' options.
>
> Double-click `mouse-1' on a paren, to select it,
> its match, and the text between them.
>
> `C-x C-x' bounces the cursor from end to end of
> the region.
>
> If code is formatted normally then you can
> pretty much count on the ))))) at the end of a
> sexp to balance what you'd expect.  Otherwise,
> someone (e.g. you) would already have fixed that.
>
> There's zero reason to put an opening or closing
> paren on a line by itself, unless you want to
> indicate something specially or add a comment in
> a particular way.
>
> `C-M-q' indents an entire sexp (e.g. a defun) in
> a conventional way.  It, `TAB', and other keys
> know Lisp syntax.
>
>