From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 17:59:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-c631d88f-473a-463f-acac-1e1fa95f45fa-1604595577855@3c-app-mailcom-bs14> (raw)
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> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 at 5:51 PM
> From: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
> To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> >> Don't people find it tough to immediately figure out which bracket closes what?
> >
> > I don't see why that would be important information. The important
> > information is to know whether an expression is "inside" or
> > "next/outside" some other and the indentation already gives you that
> > information.
> I was hacking Emacs' configure.ac earlier today. I really wished there
> was a better functioning identation and paren-highlighting mode. For
> some reason whatever mode is activated in configure.ac, it didn't really
> understood the ']' and ')' in some places despite them being correct.
>
Perhaps there is enough reason for some improvement in indentation and
paren-highlighting mode.
>
>
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 15:16 Defun Self Documentation Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 15:45 ` tomas
2020-11-05 15:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:00 ` tomas
2020-11-05 16:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 18:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-05 19:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 16:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 16:51 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-05 16:59 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-05 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 17:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 19:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 19:22 ` Joost Kremers
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2020-11-05 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-11-06 5:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-11-06 11:10 ` Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different) Jean Louis
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2020-11-06 17:02 ` Defun Self Documentation Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:07 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:41 ` Christopher Dimech
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2020-11-06 9:10 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 15:33 Anders Munch
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