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Incorrect paren-flashing
- To: DULCEY at MIT-ML
- Subject: Incorrect paren-flashing
- From: Robert W. Kerns <RWK at SCRC-TENEX>
- Date: Thu ,22 Apr 82 02:46:00 EDT
- Cc: BUG-ZWEI at SCRC-TENEX
- In-reply-to: The message of 22 Apr 82 01:48-EST from DULCEY at MIT-ML
From: DULCEY@MIT-ML
Date: 04/22/82 01:48:29
When I attempted to edit the file AI:.MAIL.;NAMES 6919 and update the
mailing list INFO-LISPM-MIT, if I put the cursor at the end of the
mailing list, ZWEI flashed the wrong paren. (It was off by one.)
This is because the syntax rules for .MAIL.; NAMES > files are not the
same as for LISP files. Notice that there's a ([FOO;FOO BAZ]) type
entry. Note the semicolon. By LISP rules, the ")" is part of a
comment, and thus should be ignored. It does not understand that.
[FOO;FOO BAZ] is a single entity. No other editor knows this about NAMES >
either.