GNU bug report logs - #32896
27.0.50; wishlist: Delete matching pairs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 14:35:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: 32896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32896: 27.0.50; wishlist: Delete matching pairs
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 09:34:43 -0500

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
It would be nice if Emacs had a command to remove matching pairs of
things so that (with | representing point):

(|let (message "%s" "foobar"))

I could delete the parens around the let function. This should work for
other pairs too:

(let ((foobar "foobar")) (message "%s" "|foobar"))

to delete the quotes around the second "foobar"

I know there are 3rd-party packages that implement this but it seems
like this should be included with Emacs since it's such a great tool for
editing.

Alex

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