From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:10:37 -0800 Message-ID: <03B5C6BC7CFA44E6A2033A6153453305@us.oracle.com> References: <7b501d5c0912040731h5838dc37n539bec334f071f1a@mail.gmail.com> <7b501d5c0912041627g6bf70d0dwc2f4ae3902b32c02@mail.gmail.com> <56B6897376CF4A16A9134E0AB7719F32@us.oracle.com> <83ocmdkbxk.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 5122@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260030467 23684 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2009 16:27:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:27:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , <5122@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com> Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 17:27:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NGxTt-0003TJ-1e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:27:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44971 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGxTs-0007pm-Na for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGxTo-0007p3-FA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGxTj-0007lR-Nd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48236 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGxTj-0007lO-Ih for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:35023) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGxTj-0004D4-Bs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nB5GRPfT000792; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:27:25 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nB5GK51L032634; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:20:05 -0800 Resent-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:20:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:20:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5122 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5122-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B5122.126002954032187 (code B ref 5122); Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:20:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5122) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 5 Dec 2009 16:12:20 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com (acsinet11.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nB5GCJkB032183 for <5122@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:12:20 -0800 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id nB5GCF5R027551 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:12:16 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id nB5GCFOu020363; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:12:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt009.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 818625521260029431; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:10:31 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.185.59) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:10:30 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Acp1jZQoXckfTlTKRoqWOkY/sxGtLgAN3WUQ In-Reply-To: <83ocmdkbxk.fsf@gnu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4B1A865A.0072:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:27:32 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:33252 Archived-At: > > It's not real obvious when you see mismatch highlighting > (and are used to it > > working) that the highlighting might not mean a mismatch at > all, but just an > > insufficiently large option value. Many (most?) users will > not even guess that > > there is such an option. > > > > Perhaps we could use a :help-echo property along with the > mismatch highlight > > face, pointing to the option? > > help-echo is not guaranteed to be seen, and could be tricky when > there's an important message in the echo area (especially if the > help-echo itself is displayed in the echo area). Also, it will not > work on a text terminal. > > I think it's better to modify the echo area message, such that if > Emacs hits the blink-matching-paren-distance limit (as opposed to > hitting point-min), the message says something like > > Mismatched parentheses (within blink-matching-paren-distance) Yes that sounds good too. To be honest, I don't know if I ever noticed any message in the echo area for this. Perhaps because the message was so expected I never paid any attention to it.