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They aren't. >=20 > This is not a personal preference. I looked through the eyes of > a beginner who types 'C-h C-h' to get help, and the first thing > the user sees is that parens are highlighted on the first line: >=20 > (Type or to scroll, C-s to search, or q to exit.) >=20 > This is what we trying to tell the user with this information: >=20 > Look, it's very important that the first paren on the first line > matches its closing paren, so we highlighted these parens for you. Mountain out of a mole hill? Or maybe the new-user takeaway is that Emacs highlights matching parens by default. ("Hey, that can be useful!")