Steve Huffman steve.huffman@gmail.com writes:
I'm having trouble matching and indenting square brackets.
All is well in *scratch* and in emacs-lisp mode, but in Lisp Slime I cannot get square brackets to match or auto-indent. It's certainly not mission-critical, but it's definitely a nuisance.
Thanks for any help,
emacs-lisp-mode and lisp-mode use different syntax tables. I have
(modify-syntax-entry ?[ "(]" lisp-mode-syntax-table) (modify-syntax-entry ?] ")[" lisp-mode-syntax-table)
in my .emacs to tell Emacs that square brackets are some kind of parenthesis.
Depending on your Emacs version, you might also add
(modify-syntax-entry ?# "' 14bp" lisp-mode-syntax-table) (modify-syntax-entry ?| "_ 23b" lisp-mode-syntax-table) (modify-syntax-entry ?\n ">a" lisp-mode-syntax-table)
to get better handling of #| ... |# comments.
Helmut.