[slime-devel] bracket matching

[Adam]

Thanks for the information. The feature you have described is not
exactly what I was after originally, but it seems like it will probably
be useful so I have enabled it.

What I was after was something that actually inserts the closing
brackets for you to help ensure the brackets remain matched.

The ParEdit extension that Timur described is exactly what I was after.
> * Adam [2009-02-05 11:47+0100] writes:
>
> >/ Hi,
> />/ I'm setting up emacs/slime for the first time and I'm having some
> />/ difficulties getting automatic bracket matching to work. I watched Marco
> />/ Baringer's lisp video and I've got most of the useful features working
> />/ like tab auto-completion and hyperspec lookup for example, but brackets
> />/ don't seem to matched automatically like they were in Marco's video.
> />/ For example whenever an opening bracket was typed a closing bracket
> />/ would be inserted after the cursor, but this doesn't happen in my
> />/ emacs/slime configuration.
> /
> Paren matching is a standard Emacs feature not something specific to
> Slime.  You can enable it with something like (show-paren-mode t) in
> your .emacs.  Depending on the Emacs version, there is also an item the
> "Options" menu.  `M-x customize-option show-paren-mode' will also work.
> In Emcas 23 it's enable by default.
>
> There is also a slightly different feature called "paren blinking" which
> moves the cursor temporarily back to the opening paren when the closing
> ) is inserted.  That's useful if you work on a black&white terminal.
>
> Helmut.
>