[racket] [racket-dev] DrRacket automatic parentheses mode update

Nice, thank you very much. I think I'll gonna use it now.

Too bad for the delete key, it would be really useful to me :)

Is it normal that it does not work in the interaction window?

Laurent


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> Thanks, Nadeem!
>
> Robby
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org> wrote:
> > Some improvements to DrRacket's "automatic parentheses" mode are now
> > available in the nightly build version and git repository. If you have
> > previous tried auto-parens and abandoned it, or if you have never tried
> it,
> > please do try it now!
> >
> > In auto-parens mode, typing a closing parenthesis will skip over an
> existing
> > one if the cursor is right in front of it. You can also type M+)  (meta
> key
> > + close parens), whether in auto-parens mode or not, to skip right past
> the
> > closing parentheses of the enclosing expression, or, if the expression is
> > not well-balanced, just forward to the next closing parentheses. This
> > behavior should also work as expected with other closing parenthesis-like
> > symbols, double quotes, and | ... | pairs. There are also some tweaks to
> the
> > auto-parens mode so that block comments #| ... |# are inserted correctly.
> > Also auto-parens mode has no effect when inside a string literal or
> comment
> > (you can always use M+( to force a parens pair if you really want one) or
> > when typing a character literal.
> >
> > While 'undo' works properly now for just-inserted () pairs in auto-parens
> > mode, I did not mess at all with delete key behavior. I've left the
> > Paredit-like functionality for another time/person! :-)
> >
> > Have fun,
> >
> > nadeem
> >
> >
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