History of Lisp Editing
&gt; I&#x27;d like to find out how people tolerated parens back in the golden days of Lisp.<p>Why is it so unimaginable that people can just live with all those parentheses? The only parenthesis-related fragment in my .emacs is the following:<p><pre><code>    (keyboard-translate ?\( ?\[)
    (keyboard-translate ?\[ ?\()
    (keyboard-translate ?\) ?\])
    (keyboard-translate ?\] ?\))
</code></pre>
I guess all the listed approaches may make things easier once you get used to them, but I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only one writing parentheses one by one.