From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6776 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: smiley.el (was Re: gnus-smiley.el -- new version) Date: 18 Jun 1996 18:54:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <199606141723.AA017493012@teal.ece.ucdavis.edu> <199606141842.LAA07706@monolith.spry.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147183 4708 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:53:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:53:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA15840 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:32:24 -0700 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:06:30 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:06:28 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Wes Hardaker's message of 18 Jun 1996 09:32:29 -0700 Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.20/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6776 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6776 Wes Hardaker writes: > Isn't there an elisp function (he says, knowing that there is but just > too lazy to go read the elisp manual) that checks for a matching > paren? You don't want to reinvent the wheel for things like: > > (blah blah blah) :-) > > It already exists, so... Just use it. I don't think so. (Not that I have tested or anything. :-) ) For instance, that smiley there will actually be the closing paren. The paren after that (the "real" closing paren) won't be recognized as such. (Unless somebody has done work in this area already. Although I don't really think so.) -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."