Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since there is no good reason to *allow* improper indentation why
> not *mandate* it then?
When I write software that produces XML, it produces no indentation or
superfluous whitespace. Adding the indentation back in to well-formed
XML (or sexps or any similarly hierarchical structure) for display
purposes is always possible.
Also, I don't understand the "paren hell" remark about
s-expressions. In Emacs, editing s-expressions in lisp-related mode
involves the commands `insert-parentheses' and
`move-past-close-and-reindent', not the commands to place literal '('
and ')' characters. That is, the commands themselves enforce balanced
editing. It's not possible to mess up the structure without
deliberately trying. The same goes for the SGML/XML Emacs modes.
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