Re: [External] : Re: Matching parenthesis for long constructs

[Heime]

On Friday, May 10th, 2024 at 6:57 AM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, May 10th, 2024 at 6:24 AM, Yuri Khan yuri.v.khan@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 May 2024 at 23:59, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Try going to the closing parenthesis of a pcase construct where the 
> > > closing
> > > parenthesis start to blink. You are effectively within the construct that
> > > encloses the pcase (the construct at the next higher level) and you get 
> > > shown
> > > that rather than the pcase construct in the echo area.
> > > 
> > > You cannot tell what you are closing off.
> > 
> > Are you typing programs from a print magazine? Because in real
> > programming you close off parentheses as you open them (or
> > electric-pair-mode or smartparens does it for you), then you go inside
> > and add inner forms, keeping parentheses balanced most of the time.
> 
> 
> Most times I am changing existing code, and encounter this problem whilst
> removing things. I quite like the idea of typing programs from a print
> magazine like byte magazine from 1975. Quite a shame people can't do that
> anymore.

Could users have Emacs Magazine ?