Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM!jr From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: check lisp file for unbalanced parentheses Message-ID: <8707101837.AA20157@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 14:37:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8707101837.AA20157 Posted: Fri Jul 10 14:37:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 12:17:04 EDT References: <385@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 11 One trivial way is to insert a close paren at the end to see if it matches anything (asuming you are in lisp mode). Slight harder is to put an extra open at the top, and then the extra close at the end should match it. But, at least it required no macros (beyond lisp mode). NB - you didn't say which emacs. I forget whether gosmacs has paren-balancing in its lisp mode (or, for that matter, whether it has a lisp mode). /jr