[racket] [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior\
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:50:20PM -0600, Grant Rettke wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org> wrote:
>
> > > My experience is htat when you use a mode like Nadeem is developing it is
> >> > impossible to write code with unbalanced parentheses unless specifically
> >> > desire to do so.
> >>
> >> Yes, it gets difficult to do so. But you might start with a file whose
> >> parenteses are unbalanced.
> >>
> >
> > Or yank/cut/copy/paste portions of text such that they become unbalanced...
> >
>
> Exactly. At that point you are intentionally not-using the s-expression
> editing functionality to perform delete operations that are likely to
> result in un-balanced parentheses. That is a feature, you know you are
> doing it.
But I'd still like to be aboe to correct the mess after I have done it.
-- hendrik