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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)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR06MB452689B3CF287B2EFD6EC8A896EE0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>


> 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.

>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-05 16:59 UTC|newest]

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
2020-11-05 19:38       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-05 19:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-05 21:02           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  5:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06  7:07               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  7:18                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  7:45                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06  8:17                     ` tomas
2020-11-06  8:38                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  8:45                         ` tomas
2020-11-09  3:22                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  8:44                     ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 11:54                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 12:12                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 17:36                         ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 18:03                           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09  3:49                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 18:39                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-09  4:00                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:48                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:45                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:29                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 11:10                   ` Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different) Jean Louis
2020-11-09  4:01                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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
2020-11-05 16:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 18:41   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-06  9:10 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 15:33 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 16:07   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09  4:08   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  4:26     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  4:39       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09 13:32         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-11-11 15:34           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 15:51         ` Eli Zaretskii

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