Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!news!gateley From: gateley@rice.edu (John Gateley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Tradition Lisp code formatting Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 17:42:21 GMT References: <20899@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: gaynor@brushfire.rutgers.edu's message of 23 Jun 91 12:57:05 GMT In article gaynor@brushfire.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes: [discussing reasons for putting one closing paren per line vs. all on one] The second is because it easier to move blocks of code around. That point I'll concede. I won't :^). Again, with smarter editors it is just as easy to move blocks of code around with the dense representation. In particular, the commands "move-forward-sexpression", "kill-sexpression" and "reindent-sexpression" are great. John gateley@rice.edu -- "I've thought the thoughts of little children and the thoughts of men I've thought the thoughts of stupid people who have never been so much in love as they should be and got confused too easily to fall in love again." The Residents and Renaldo and the Loaf