Re: elisp beginner's parens question ??

[William Case]

Thanks for your reply Thi

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 21:31 +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
> () Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:23:20 -0400
> 
>    mental tips or tricks
> 
> not very mental, but practical: i use mic-paren (by mic).  see:
> 
> http://www.gnuvola.org/software/personal-elisp/dist-lisp-index.html
> 
> and search for "turn-on-mic-paren", for example.
> 
I have looked at the site and downloaded the program(s) you have
suggested.

However, the "mental tips or tricks" was really a 'by the way' or an
after thought question.  What I was really asking was how the
interpreter or emacs uses parenthesis or how parenthesis are nested.
Put another way, I was trying to develop for myself a minds eye view of
how check-parens works.  Does check-parens just count left parens and
compare that to the number of right parens to find an error, or does it
actually examine nested parens pairs and work inword (or outward) ?
-- 
Regards Bill