message-mode: handle ":-)" specially for matching parens

message-mode: handle ":-)" specially for matching parens

[Kai Großjohann]

I vaguely recall that I added special stuff in message-mode to make
sure that in "(foo :-)", the closing paren does not match the opening
paren.  Otherwise, messages with smileys will have too many mismatched
parens...

But this isn't working for me, anymore.  Have I done something wrong
or has it disappeared from Gnus?  If it has disappeared, why?  If I've
done something wrong, I'll go look what it was.

kai
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Re: message-mode: handle ":-)" specially for matching parens

[Per Abrahamsen]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I vaguely recall that I added special stuff in message-mode to make
> sure that in "(foo :-)", the closing paren does not match the opening
> paren.  Otherwise, messages with smileys will have too many mismatched
> parens...
> 
> But this isn't working for me, anymore.  Have I done something wrong
> or has it disappeared from Gnus?  If it has disappeared, why?  If I've
> done something wrong, I'll go look what it was.

It is wrong for me too.  I didn't even know it was supposed to work.

Another problem:  The sad face :-( looks angry to me.  It :-( really
normally used for angry?

Re: message-mode: handle ":-)" specially for matching parens

[Kai Großjohann]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Another problem:  The sad face :-( looks angry to me.  It :-( really
> normally used for angry?

I have always used it for "sad" (or maybe "disappointed"), not for
"angry".  Maybe we could look in the Jargon file.

Hm.  The Jargon file says:

/----
|      :-(
|           `frowney face' (for sadness, anger, or upset)
\----

Of course, devising a single graphic for this is not easy!

kai
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