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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Subject: Re: blink-paren function
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 16:51:16 GMT
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- In article <47510@shamash.cdc.com> bjdunlop@shamash.cdc.com (Bruce Dunlop) writes:
- >In general, it always blinks the matching left paren for the paren one space to the left
- >of where the cursor is.
- >
- >Is this how it is supposed to work? Does it work like this for anyone else?
-
- Think about how it works when you're initially typing. After you type a
- right parenthesis, it's to the left of the cursor, and you want the
- parenthesis that matches the one you just typed to blink. It can't match
- the parenthesis of the one you're *about* to type, since Emacs doesn't have
- ESP yet (I think that's planned for the FSF's version, which may be why
- it's taking so long :-).
-
- Also, that's where you want the cursor to be when you type
- Control-Meta-Rubout (does Lucid Emacs have this binding by default? Lisp
- Machine Zmacs has it), and you want the matching parenthesis to blink.
-
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