From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Dangling Closing Parentheses vs. Stacked Closing Parentheses Date: 2000/03/31 Message-ID: <3163496610594768@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604780870 References: <38DBE821.F64C2B22@genworks.com> <3163031395198264@naggum.no> <8bneig$6s8$4@ssauraaa-i-1.production.compuserve.com> <8btbto$6uh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8bv5bh$j5p$1@ssauraaa-i-1.production.compuserve.com> <8c03f1$9il$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8c05ub$i6u$1@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 954508283 5870 195.0.192.66 (31 Mar 2000 13:11:23 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Mar 2000 13:11:23 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Anthony Cartmell" | Perhaps you could explain to me how Emacs does indentation of Lisp code? | I'm really interested, especially if it doesn't look at the parens. you're not getting it, are you? Emacs looks at the parens to indent, the reader of the indented code subsequently does _not_ look at the parens. unless you are Emacs, parens are nearly irrelevant. if you _are_ Emacs, try M-x doctor. #:Erik