Dumbparens is a parenthesis-matching solution for Emacs that actually Just Worksâ„¢ (finally). It replaces and improves on previous packages such as Electric Pair mode, Paredit, and Smartparens. The package is called Dumbparens as a response to Smartparens, which I feel tries to be much too smart for its own good, resulting in a host of bugs, performance issues, and inexplicable behavior. Dumbparens has the design philosophy of: try to do as little as possible, and always do something reasonable.
Documentation will come when the basic features have been implemented.
Usage is as follows. First install with
straight.el
:
(straight-use-package
'(dumbparens :host github :repo "raxod502/dumbparens"))
Then type M-x dumbparens-mode
or M-x dumbparens-global-mode
.
To run the tests, you have two options:
- From Emacs, evaluate the contents of
dumbparens-tests.el
and then typeM-x dumbparens-run-all-tests
. - From the command line, run
make test
.
Since Dumbparens has a goal of always doing something reasonable, any unreasonable behavior will result in a slap on the wrist and a new regression test.
Note that there are also various linters, which you can run along with
the unit tests by means of make lint
.
CircleCI will
automatically run this against all supported Emacs versions. You can
easily test for yourself by using make docker VERSION=25.1
or
analogous to use the appropriate version.