Re: [Orgmode] programming for org-mode

[Nick Dokos]

Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:

> > I presume that paredit is useful because it's a minor mode, so you can
> > enable it on an org-mode buffer (e.g. using babel).
> 
> No, even for emacs-lisp code blocks I use C-c ' to edit the code in
> emacs-lisp mode.  I do have "[" and "]" globally bound to
> `insert-parenthesis' and `move-past-close-and-reindent' respectively,
> but that's probably a little too radical for most users.
> 
> I only enable paredit minor-mode in lispy modes.
> 

Ah, OK.

> > But if you are editing a .el file, then emacs-lisp mode provides all
> > these facilities (C-M-f -> forward-sexp, etc.) and you don't need
> > paredit.  Do I have that right?
> >
> 
> Not quite,
> 
> Paredit has a number of nice features aside from sexp movement,
> including /electric/ insertion of both open and close parenthesis,
> brackets and quotation's which greatly increase the speed with which one
> can write lisp code -- all the while ensuring that the code in the
> buffer is /valid/ in terms of balanced parenthesis.
> 

Thanks for the explanation!

Nick