Re: on adding a function call to a s-exp

[Robert Girault]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Robert Girault <rfrancoisgirault@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (show-paren-mode)
>> (electric-pair-mode)
>> (autoload 'enable-paredit-mode "paredit"
>>     "Turn on pseudo-structural editing of Lisp code."
>>      t)
>> (add-hook 'M-mode-hook 'enable-paredit-mode)
>
> I don't know what M-mode is, but in elisp-lisp-mode and with paredit,
> it's like you want.  If you use paredit for Emacs Lisp, you probably
> also don't need electric-pair-mode.

I confirm this.  (Thanks!)

> Without paredit-mode, AFAICT what you get when you hit M-( is
> `insert-pair' via `insert-parentheses', and that has hardcoded what you
> see.  You would have to change `insert-pair' to get what you want - with
> an advice probably.  Alternatively, as said, paredit should behave as
> you want without configuration.

I'll choose to use paredit and learn how to use it properly.  (There'll
likely be other good things there that I don't currently know or use.)