package paredit-el tags 564539 + wontfix thanks James wrote: > Please consider adding something like the following to the site file.
The existing README.Debian file states: > Paredit for Debian > ================== > > By default, paredit is not enabled in any major modes. Deciding > which modes should use paredit is rather subjective, so I've taken > the safest approach and left it off for all of them. This means > that simply apt-get installing paredit-el should give neither a > pleasant nor nasty surprise to users. > > The most typical major modes in which to use paredit are lisp and > scheme. To enable those, add the following to your .emacs: > > (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (paredit-mode +1))) > (add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook (lambda () (paredit-mode +1))) > > A slightly more paranoid version might be: > > (when (fboundp 'paredit-mode) > (mapc (lambda (hook) > (add-hook hook (lambda () (paredit-mode +1)))) > '(lisp-mode-hook scheme-mode-hook))) > > The latter will not cause an error when paredit isn't installed, and > doesn't involve copy-and-pasting. > > -- Trent Buck <trentb...@gmail.com>, Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:12:58 +1000 Having been on the receiving end of overenthusiastically-enabled modes (e.g. cedet) on a shared system, I'm reluctant to turn paredit on by default, even for lisp-mode. As you say, it's easy for customize users to disable it again, but it's more annoying with a hand-written .emacs that's shared across a number of heterogeneous hosts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
