From: Neil Zanella
Subject: clisp: cursor control
Date: 
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0109181939260.11340-100000@garfield.cs.mun.ca>
Hello,

How can I keep clisp from moving the cursor every time I type a
parenthesis? This feature is more user friendly than I want it
to be: I find this feature is not as helpful as it is distracting.
Personally I prefer to keep track of parentheses manually, rather
than waiting for clisp to place the cursor back where it was.
I really would like to disable this feature or nonfeature.

Thanks for your help,

Neil

From: Dave MacDonald
Subject: Re: clisp: cursor control
Date: 
Message-ID: <87vgifx4s6.fsf@idirect.com>
Neil Zanella <········@garfield.cs.mun.ca> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> How can I keep clisp from moving the cursor every time I type a
> parenthesis? This feature is more user friendly than I want it
> to be: I find this feature is not as helpful as it is distracting.
> Personally I prefer to keep track of parentheses manually, rather
> than waiting for clisp to place the cursor back where it was.
> I really would like to disable this feature or nonfeature.

http://clisp.cons.org/clreadline.html gives details about all of
CLISP's interactive line-editing capabilities.  Look for
"blink-matching-paren".

Incidentally, you can just keep typing right through the blink process
without losing any input.  Also, CLISP-specific questions are more
likely to get a response on the clisp-help mailing list.  See
http://clisp.cons.org for details.

-Dave
From: Kaz Kylheku
Subject: Re: clisp: cursor control
Date: 
Message-ID: <fcSp7.23576$jY.558205@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>
In article <········································@garfield.cs.mun.ca>,
Neil Zanella wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>How can I keep clisp from moving the cursor every time I type a
>parenthesis? This feature is more user friendly than I want it
>to be: I find this feature is not as helpful as it is distracting.
>Personally I prefer to keep track of parentheses manually, rather
>than waiting for clisp to place the cursor back where it was.

Then don't wait; keep typing!

>I really would like to disable this feature or nonfeature.

Since clisp uses the readline library, chances are that the
configuration mechanisms for readline can influence its behavior.

RTFM!
From: John Paul Wallington
Subject: Re: clisp: cursor control
Date: 
Message-ID: <874rq0nfw4.fsf@bundalo.shootybangbang.com>
Neil Zanella wrote:
> 
> How can I keep clisp from moving the cursor every time I type a
> parenthesis? 

See the clreadline manual page.  If you don't have a ~/.inputrc file
you could create one that contains the line:

set blink-matching-paren off

Hope this helps.

-- 
John Paul Wallington