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

From: Norman Gray (norman at astro.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 23 08:36:44 EST 2012

On 2012 Nov 23, at 08:43, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> IMO, inserting a closing paren (of any shape, including quotes) must
> come with such a feature, but what you describe is only to let you get
> used to the idea.  I'd prefer that in the auto-insert-closing-paren-
> mode, typing a closing paren jumps over the existing one even if the
> cursor is not in front of one.  IOW, in this mode, I'd like it if "("
> and ")" behave like "M-(" and "M-)" in Emacs (IIRC, drr doesn't do the
> last one).

+1 (I meant to mention this in my earlier response)

That is: ideally, typing either M-) or ) would jump out one level of parens, add a newline, and indent.

…and C-M-[fbudk] are really good.

Norman


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