On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:22 AM, John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Eduardo Bellani wrote: > >> What holds me personally to emacs is paredit for now. DR is rocking these >> days, >> specially debugging wise. > > Really? We've got most of what paredit offers, including mapping raw > left-paren to matched-pair (this option is currently called "automatic > parentheses"). Glancing over the cheat-sheet, it looks like the only major > change would be the fact that right-paren is not mapped to jump-outward; > instead, I just use the right arrow for that (when there are intervening > chars, I use opt-up opt-right). > > Are there other things that paredit gives you?
My main gripe with DrRacket's automatic parentheses is the removal. When, say, the left paren is removed, the right one remains. Paredit handled such things automatically. Also Paredit is aware of the context. If one insert a parenthesis inside a comment, it won't try to balance it. It uses the `parser state' information from emacs extensively to do its work, if I remember correct (I read the code long ago to see if I can implement something similar in DrRacket, but gave up). <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Parser-State.html> -- Ramakrishnan ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
