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Comment by skilldrick | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand why a Lisp hacker wouldn't match parens properly when ending a parenthetical statement with a smiley:

  (commentless, of course :)

Hasn't he seen xkcd: http://xkcd.com/541/ ?

If you do it the double-chinned XKCD way, it messes up your auto-balancing text editor.

If you read XKCD and use an auto-balancing editor for plaintext then you should have no problems modding it to recognize emoticons.

Of course! I take it all back.

…which you obviously use to write your e-mails.

I use my text editor for typing everything. Scratch buffers are a wonderful thing.

Apparently you don't know anyone who spends 90% of their working time in emacs.

I do. :-(whoops, I don't : he uses the other editor).