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Re: matching parentheses


From: Tim X
Subject: Re: matching parentheses
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:15:14 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu> writes:

> On 2007-08-20, Joel J. Adamson <jadamson@partners.org> wrote:
>> Ralf Angeli <dev.null@caeruleus.net> writes:
>>
>>> * Alain Muls (2007-08-20) writes:
>>>
>>>> How does one insert automatically matching parentheses in emacs when in 
>>>> auctex mode?
>>>
>>> (info "(autotype)Inserting Pairs")
>>
>> How automatic do you want it?  I press "M-(" and I get () with the
>> point inside the parentheses.  Here, I'll do it again: ()
>
> Interesting. I knew about C-c-{ in Auctex but not about M-( in
> general. Why the different mechanisms in very similar cases?

Given that emacs uses a lisp dialect as an extension language and the ()
are so central to lisp syntax, I suspect that making M-( general was
considered a good idea. Only a guess though.

Tim


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