[plt-scheme] Parentheses and color

> Of course. But some users will only write a few lines of scheme code
> in their lives, and they don't necessarily know the shortcuts you
> cited above.

This has incidentally been an eye opener to me as well!  I didn't  
know about the  `M-(' keystroke --- and I've programmed in Scheme all  
my life (and frequently in Drscheme).

In fact, the balanced parentheses mode in emacs (balanced.el) has  
been the main thing holding me back from using DrScheme for writing  
code as well as for debugging.  Now if I can only remap the keys so  
that the balanced insertions are the default...

I do, however, still think toggling an enforced balanced mode (like  
balanced.el -- i.e. you can't delete one parenthesis by itself, you  
may only delete the null list) would be a useful feature if anyone  
felt like implementing it.

-Ryan

On Jul 3, 2007, at 11:07 PM, Jean-Pierre Lozi wrote:

>> WYSIWYG is a fine approach to editing visual forms -- programming  
>> is a
>> symbolic process.  (In other words -- those users who are quick with
>> vim/emacs+latex have a good reason to stick with that and not switch
>> to, say, Word.)
>
> Of course. But some users will only write a few lines of scheme code
> in their lives, and they don't necessarily know the shortcuts you
> cited above.
>
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre Lozi
> http://www.lozi.org
> mailto:jean-pierre at lozi.org
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