[racket] [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior\

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Sun Nov 25 18:45:10 EST 2012

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:50:20PM -0600, Grant Rettke wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > My experience is htat when you use a mode like Nadeem is developing
> it is
> > >> > impossible to write code with unbalanced parentheses unless
> specifically
> > >> > desire to do so.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, it gets difficult to do so.  But you might start with a file
> whose
> > >> parenteses are unbalanced.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Or yank/cut/copy/paste portions of text such that they become
> unbalanced...
> > >
> >
> > Exactly. At that point you are intentionally not-using the s-expression
> > editing functionality to perform delete operations that are likely to
> > result in un-balanced parentheses. That is a feature, you know you are
> > doing it.
>
> But I'd still like to be aboe to correct the mess after I have done it.
>

Just have to hit undo.
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