Re: syntax for ?= in sh-mode

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I guess that's an improvement, but I am not sure it is
> > a very useful one.  I would encourage people to write these
> > things with parentheses for increased clarity anyway,
> > and with the parentheses, Emacs will indent correctly now.
> 
> Well, but it applies at many more places than just arithmetic.
> E.g. the `,' that separates arguments in so many languages can be treated
> similarly, so that C-M-t properly transposes two arguments.
> Placing parentheses there would be excruciating.

It sounds very nice actually; sometimes adding parentheses is the right thing
to do, but other times it's not, and I often feel annoyed that I'm force to
add otherwise unwanted parentheses just get emacs to indent correctly.
Improvements in expression manipulation also seem verty handy.

-Miles
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