On Jul 13, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:46 PM, John Clements > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0EB7BC8D7CF739A > > I just saw one video and liked it. Can you tell us how you are getting > the emacs paredit like automatic matched parantheses with the > automatic placement of cursor inside the parantheses? I could not find > such an option in my DrRacket preferences. I am running 5.1.1.8. > (Didn't post to the list as it is a -dev list and didn't want to ask > this silly question to the crowd which is otherwise involved in high > quality discussions)
No, that's an entirely reasonable question, with an answer that's in the process of changing. First thing: you can use ESC-(. That is: press and release ESC, type (. That works, but it's a big pain. Second thing: Until two days ago, I'd been using the keybindings file that I attach below, so that this keystroke becomes simply (. While making these videos, though, I found that I *really* wanted to be able to give people a simple way to do this. As a result, I've now added a preference to DrRacket called "enable automatic parentheses." It's available as part of the development build now, but it probably won't be a part of the 5.1.2 release. It should definitely be a part of the 5.1.3 release. In the meantime, you can enable these bindings by choosing the "Add User-defined Keybindings..." option, and referring to the file that I attach here. Thanks for your question! I'm actually forwarding this response to dev anyway---hope you don't mind. John Clements
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