Nadeem, hello. On 2012 Nov 23, at 00:20, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nad...@acm.org> wrote:
> 1. Do you use the automatic parentheses feature of DrRacket? No, because this feature wasn't present. (I didn't realise until this thread that there was supposed to be a M-( and M-) function, though I can't seem to enable this in DrRacket (5.3 on OS X), even when I enable 'Treat command key as meta'. > 2a. If yes, does the proposal above resonate well with you? > 2b. And, do you think this "smart skipping" of auto-inserted closing > parentheses should become the intrinsic behavior of the automatic parentheses > mode, or should it be a separate preference? (i.e. have two preference > options - the current automatic parentheses one and then a subordinate option > that enables/disables this skipping over of auto-inserted closing parentheses > as the user types them) I think it should become intrinsic, because I don't see much point in an automatic-parenthesis mode which doesn't have this functionality. Going further, I'm not sure there's much point in _not_ having the smart-skipping behaviour, even as an option. I normally use Emacs for writing code, unless it's something on the edge of my understanding, where I feel I need the extra help DrRacket can provide. I switch between languages quite a bit (ie not just Schemes) so it seems more convenient for me to stick to one editor rather than multiple IDEs, even if they're individually better for a particular language. The lack of M-(, M-), C-M-u, C-M-f, C-M-b, C-M-k and friends is one thing that's frustrated my occasional forays into "I really should learn more about the wonders of DrRacket… oh dear, I seem to have lost the ability to type". It's only on those forays that I discover how wedded I've become to a few emacs keystrokes. It feels reeeeeeaalllly weird moving around code, and especially Scheme, with the mouse and arrow keys. > 3. If your answer to #1 is "No", why not? (Is it because you find its current > behavior awkward in some way?) See above. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
