On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Nick Shelley <nickmshel...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I sort of like this behavior, and the visual difference gets rid of any >> potential confusion. >> > > Just an idea... you might duplicate Paredit's functionality: > > http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit > > It is way past beta and has probably gone through all of the pain of > debating over points like this since a lot of people use it and have shared > their feedback, too. > I haven't really used ParEdit at all - just tried it out a little bit in the last couple of days - but it seems to be too much of a straitjacket to me (at least in its default, out-of-the-box settings)? It overrides/ignores too much of what I try to do in terms of typing (closing) parens, and it seems possible to get it in a state where parentheses don't match up, like ( ... ], and it's not immediately evident how to correct it conveniently because ParEdit neither lets me delete or change the ]. > Additionally, it would be a big selling point for DrRacket to be able to > offer "Paredit equivelant functionality" in addition to the other great > stuff it already offers. > Yes, or maybe, "better-than-ParEdit functionality", :-P .... > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >
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