From: goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 54551@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54551: show-paren-mode inconsistency
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 04:29:01 +0000 [thread overview]
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------- Original Message -------
On Friday, March 25th, 2022 at 4:20 PM, goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com> wrote:
> ------- Original Message -------
>
> On Friday, March 25th, 2022 at 12:12 PM, Phil Sainty psainty@orcon.net.nz wrote:
>
> > On 2022-03-25 11:48, goncholden wrote:
>
> > > Consider the following command
> > > (setq initial-frame-alist '((width . 72) (height . 26)) ).
> > > Would be instructive that when one puts the cursor in the space
> > > between (width . 72) and (height . 26), the entire (width . 72)
> > > (height . 26) would be highlighted.
> > That wouldn't make any sense for show-paren-mode.
> > The cursor (point) is either between the ")" and " " characters, or
> > else between the " " and "(" characters. Those are the only two
> > possibilities, and in each case you would expect show-paren-mode to
> > highlight the adjacent expression (to the left or to the right of the
> > cursor, respectively).
> I use the block colouring of the cursor, meaning that your valid description
> in not so intuitive. Would it be possible to include a different interpretation
> depending on the type of cursor display one is using?
> > > But (setq show-paren-when-point-inside-paren t) does not do that.
> > It's not documented as doing that, so there's not reason to expect
> > that it might.
> > I think you're looking for this library:
> > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HighlightSexp
> Will try it out and report back about it.
Is HighlightSexp only relevant for use with lisp-mode-hook and emacs-lisp-mode-hook ?
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2022-03-24 20:13 bug#54551: show-paren-mode inconsistency goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-24 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 22:48 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-25 0:12 ` Phil Sainty
2022-03-25 4:20 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-25 4:29 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-03-25 4:57 ` Phil Sainty
2022-03-25 5:23 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-25 5:53 ` Phil Sainty
2022-03-25 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-25 7:10 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-25 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-25 8:35 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-25 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-25 8:51 ` Stephen Berman
2022-03-25 9:32 ` Phil Sainty
2022-03-25 11:47 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-25 11:56 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-25 12:00 ` Stephen Berman
2022-03-24 21:34 ` Phil Sainty
2022-03-25 16:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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