From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: arash@gnu.org, 51032@debbugs.gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es
Subject: bug#51032: 29.0.50; Choices for blink-matching-paren
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:23:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335pe2es6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=zAF8C+geDOVpWm5jaVftM8M--mJSsJ0i__xyHTFG1HQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 6 Oct 2021 14:10:45 -0400)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 14:10:45 -0400
> Cc: mardani29@yahoo.es, arash@gnu.org, 51032@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > And 'show' (or 'foo', or any other non-nil value) does NOT show the
> > matching paren in the echo area when that position is off-screen? It
> > does here, FWIW.
>
> The behavior you see should be explained in the new docstring. Did you
> miss this part in the diff?
>
> +In addition, if the opening paren is not visible on screen, show
> +its position in the echo area.
But that's incorrect, because it doesn't happen when the value is
'jump' or 'jump-offscreen'. The "in addition" part makes it sound
like it happens with any non-nil value.
> >> + even if the opening paren is not on screen."
> >
> > This doesn't update the choices, which is what the original bug report
> > was about.
>
> Yes it does, by changing t to non-nil. Or maybe I don't understand what
> you are saying.
How many possible values can this variable have, and how many are
listed in the menu of choices that will be presented to the user?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-06 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-05 12:18 bug#51032: 29.0.50; Choices for blink-matching-paren Arash Esbati
2021-10-05 14:25 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-05 21:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-06 12:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-06 18:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-06 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-06 18:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-06 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-06 20:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-07 9:02 ` Arash Esbati
2021-10-07 9:08 ` martin rudalics
2021-10-07 9:16 ` Arash Esbati
2021-10-07 9:34 ` martin rudalics
2021-10-07 10:17 ` Arash Esbati
2021-10-07 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 10:20 ` Arash Esbati
2021-10-07 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 13:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-07 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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