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Re: Defun Self Documentation


From: Christopher Dimech
Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 20:34:45 +0100

 Yes, I really like minibuffer details on Closing parentheses.


> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 at 7:08 PM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: tomas@tuxteam.de
> Cc: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
> * tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> [2020-11-05 19:02]:
> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 04:55:54PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > > Don't people find it tough to immediately figure out which bracket closes
> > > what?  But if readers will thank me, I would certainly comply.  I come 
> > > from
> > > the C-Language as is evident.
>
> I can understand the problem. Here is short advise:
>
> - (setq electric-pair-mode t)  ;; This will give automatic () instead of only 
> (
>   and it will work with [] and "", this helps to make sure what is closed
>
> - highlight matching parenthesis in menu and save options, that
>   will give you flashing parenthesis and you will know what you
>   are closing.
>
> - additionally you may see in minibuffer also first part of the
>   list that you are closing
>



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