On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Getting back to the point of the original post, one of the nice features of > DrRacket is that when you type `]`, it automatically puts either ']' or ')'
Having used DrRacket quite a bit lately, I do not find its handling of parens to be particularly good. Regardless of whether I set it to auto-close each opening paren or not, I constantly find myself with a missing paren or an extra paren, or an incorrect mix of closing ))]))] somewhere. It's not a problem I ever have in Emacs working on Clojure - with paredit. > this is like closing off a thought. Paren matching is currently more > arduous in Clojure, because you really do have to pay attention to which > kind of delimiter you're closing off and type the right one, so I would love Well, that's why folks advocate paredit - that problem simply goes away. Yes, paredit is a bit of a pain to get used to at first, but it really does remove a whole slew of issues around parentheses in code, and it really does make you a lot more productive, especially once you learn the structural editing commands (I am surprised at how many times I use paredit-convolute-sexpr to help reorganize code - I'm almost at the point of binding it to a key sequence!). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.