CategoryParentheses

Click on the header to find all parenthesis related pages. In Emacs-jargon, parentheses are often called “parens”.

• AdjustParens – Indent and dedent Lisp code, automatically adjust close parens
• InsertPair – Commands for inserting pairs of characters.
• ShowParenMode – highlight matching parentheses
• NavigatingParentheses – navigating between paretheses
• DebuggingParentheses – find “unbalanced parentheses” errors in files
• ParenthesisMatching – how to turn two characters into matching parentheses and bounce between matching parenthesis.
• ParenthesesAppearance – changing the appearance of parentheses (like color)
• AutoPairs – insert parentheses in pairs. See also BalancedEl.
• joseph-autopair.el – insert parentheses or other things you defined in pairs.
• ParEdit – Structured editing of sexps
• ElectricDotAndDash – experimental stuff, providing another way of entering parentheses.
• UniversialCloseParen – tries to insert the “correct” type of close paren.
• EmacsVersor – Structured editing and navigation of sexps and other units
• ElectricPair – Structured editing with parentheses
• parenthesis.el – Structured editing with parentheses
• lispy.el – Structured editing of Lisp code with vi-like bindings
• insert-pair-edit.el – Insert, Edit and Delete pairs using overlays.

See ‘skeleton-pair-insert-maybe’ as an example for how useful Emacs’ handling of parentheses can be. SelectivePairInsert can also be useful with pairs of parens, quoting characters and string pairs in general.