Re: Defun Self Documentation

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 at 5:51 PM
> From: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
> To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> >> Don't people find it tough to immediately figure out which bracket closes 
> >> what?
> >
> > I don't see why that would be important information.  The important
> > information is to know whether an expression is "inside" or
> > "next/outside" some other and the indentation already gives you that
> > information.

> I was hacking Emacs' configure.ac earlier today. I really wished there
> was a better functioning identation and paren-highlighting mode. For
> some reason whatever mode is activated in configure.ac, it didn't really
> understood the ']' and ')' in some places despite them being correct.
>

Perhaps there is enough reason for some improvement in indentation and
paren-highlighting mode.

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