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

From: Asumu Takikawa (asumu at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 22 23:39:20 EST 2012

On 2012-11-22 19:20:54 -0500, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote:
>    The idea is to have DrRacket automatically skip over
>    automatically-inserted closing parens if the user types one while the
>    cursor is right in front of one. (The Eclipse Java IDE does this with
>    various types of braces and parens, and in the past I've found this
>    very nice and have observed others (my students) interact well with
>    such a feature.)

That sounds good to me. I don't use automatic parens in DrRacket, but I
have in the past. In emacs or vim, I use paredit, which has the same
behavior on closing parens (though paredit seems to also insert a
newline for indentation).

Cheers,
Asumu

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