[slime-devel] Re: Slime inserting an extra parenthesis

[Jan Rychter]

>>>>> "Edi" == Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:
 Edi> On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:20:15 +0100, Jan Rychter <jan at rychter.com>
 Edi> wrote:
 >> I often use insert-parentheses in XEmacs, and it seems to interact
 >> badly with SLIME.
 >>
 >> An example: I begin with:
 >>
 CL-USER> ()
 >> ^point
 >>
 >> I then type asdf-u<TAB>:u<TAB> and end up with this:
 >>
 CL-USER> (asdf-upgrade:upgrade))
 >> ^point
 >>
 >> Notice the extra parenthesis that SLIME inserted.
 >>
 >> My guess is that SLIME shouldn't insert this parenthesis. I can
 >> understand where this came from (no extra args, so the user surely
 >> wants to close the parenthesis), but for someone mostly working with
 >> balanced parentheses this isn't too useful.

 Edi> I think this can be controlled with
 Edi> slime-complete-symbol*-fancy

Right, well -- but shouldn't completion be smart enough to know if the
parentheses should be closed or not?

--J.