Hal> Since we're on this topic, I'm constantly annoyed by the Hal> following (in addition to sexps with '(' and ')'): how to get Hal> emacs to realize that it should match the parens on: Hal> map (\(x,y) -> ... Hal> since \( isn't an escape character. i end up writing: Hal> map (\ (x,y) -> ... Hal> but i'd prefer the former Hal> also, to not thing -- in a string begins a comment: Hal> print "This is not -- I repeat, not -- a comment" Hal> There's one more case, but I'm going blank on it right now. Hal> Anyone have any fixes? Yes, I know about these as well. The first would normally be addressed by (add-hook 'haskell-mode-hook (lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "'"))) but of course this screws up parsing of strings, which will now be terminated by \" :-( The second one is because the haskell mode tries to handle comments on its own (and fails), since once again Haskell comments can't be handled by the normal mechanism -- partly because of nested comments, but even the line tail comments are weird due to the single-token rule. All this taken together, I mean, _really_, is the lexical structure of Haskell a botch, or what? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 The world has taken on a thickness of vulgarity that raises a spiritual man's contempt to the violence of a passion. Baudelaire