On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Stanislav Sedov <[email protected]> wrote:
> One should definitely try it to see if it works for him, but saying it is a
> panacea
> for balancing parens/braces is a bit for stretch as other tools solve this
> problem
> as well.
It's important to draw the distinction between "parentheses matching"
(in terms of highlighting matching parens), "auto-closing parentheses"
(inserting ')' when you type '(' etc), and "structural editing". The
former two are provided by most editors (nearly all, these days I
suspect). The advocates of paredit are really talking about the latter
feature, of which the former two are minor sub-features that are
almost "just" an implementation detail.
Structural editing - being able to move / expand / contract /
reorganize entire s-expressions with simple keystrokes is where the
additional productivity comes from. Assuming you can get past paredit
not allowing you to type ill-formed code, of course :)
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