<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:41 PM, John Clements wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; font-size: 10px; ">3) Tangentially related: if you introduce all your () pairs with ESC-(, then you'll never need to type a right paren again. You can highlight an s-expression and hit ESC-(, and you'll wrap the term in parens.  Going whole hog, you can remap your left-paren to perform this operation, and you can get rid of the 'ESC'.</span></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Given than matching brackets are the norm. Why the default requires escaping to insert pairs?</div></body></html>