bug#3889: 23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance

bug#3889: 23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance

[Ian Eure]

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A user came into #emacs today complaining that his paren matching was  
not working with a large file, and that font-locking broke as a result.

I found that this is controlled by blink-matching-paren-distance,  
which was increased to 25kb around 1997.

Attached is a patch which doubles this to 50kb, as this should be fine  
for modern machines. I think that we should seriously consider setting  
the default to nil, but this seems like a more conservative approach  
to the matter.


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Index: simple.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/simple.el,v
retrieving revision 1.998
diff -u -u -r1.998 simple.el
--- simple.el	19 Jul 2009 00:33:11 -0000	1.998
+++ simple.el	20 Jul 2009 20:45:21 -0000
@@ -5254,7 +5254,7 @@
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'paren-blinking)
 
-(defcustom blink-matching-paren-distance (* 25 1024)
+(defcustom blink-matching-paren-distance (* 50 1024)
   "If non-nil, maximum distance to search backwards for matching open-paren.
 If nil, search stops at the beginning of the accessible portion of the buffer."
   :type '(choice (const nil) integer)

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bug#3889: 23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance

[martin rudalics]

 > A user came into #emacs today complaining that his paren matching was
 > not working with a large file, and that font-locking broke as a result.
 >
 > I found that this is controlled by blink-matching-paren-distance, which
 > was increased to 25kb around 1997.

How can `blink-matching-paren-distance' affect font-locking?  If I
understand correctly all `blink-matching-open' can do is slow down
typing.

martin

bug#3889: 23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance

[Ian Eure]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 2:39 AM, martin rudalics wrote:

> > A user came into #emacs today complaining that his paren matching  
> was
> > not working with a large file, and that font-locking broke as a  
> result.
> >
> > I found that this is controlled by blink-matching-paren-distance,  
> which
> > was increased to 25kb around 1997.
>
> How can `blink-matching-paren-distance' affect font-locking?  If I
> understand correctly all `blink-matching-open' can do is slow down
> typing.
>
I don't know, as I couldn't reproduce that aspect of the issue.  
Perhaps their `show-paren-style' was set to 'expression.

The paren matching definitely breaks, though. You get a message saying  
that you have mismatched parens, and they're highlighted incorrectly.

  - Ian

bug#3889: 23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance

[Stefan Monnier]

> Attached is a patch which doubles this to 50kb, as this should be fine for
> modern machines.

100kB should be fine, indeed.

> I think that we should seriously consider setting the default to nil,
> but this seems like a more conservative approach to the matter.

Maybe when you're browsing a 200MB log file, you'll find it painful, so
a lower limit would still seem to make sense.  100kB is probably very
conservative (even when running on my poor cell-phone, it should be fast
enough).


        Stefan

bug#3889: 23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance

[martin rudalics]

 > I don't know, as I couldn't reproduce that aspect of the issue. Perhaps
 > their `show-paren-style' was set to 'expression.

Could you try to get back to them?  Font-locking should never be
affected by this.

 > The paren matching definitely breaks, though. You get a message saying
 > that you have mismatched parens, and they're highlighted incorrectly.

That's normal.

martin

bug#3889: marked as done (23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance)

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A user came into #emacs today complaining that his paren matching was  
not working with a large file, and that font-locking broke as a result.

I found that this is controlled by blink-matching-paren-distance,  
which was increased to 25kb around 1997.

Attached is a patch which doubles this to 50kb, as this should be fine  
for modern machines. I think that we should seriously consider setting  
the default to nil, but this seems like a more conservative approach  
to the matter.


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Index: simple.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/simple.el,v
retrieving revision 1.998
diff -u -u -r1.998 simple.el
--- simple.el	19 Jul 2009 00:33:11 -0000	1.998
+++ simple.el	20 Jul 2009 20:45:21 -0000
@@ -5254,7 +5254,7 @@
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'paren-blinking)
 
-(defcustom blink-matching-paren-distance (* 25 1024)
+(defcustom blink-matching-paren-distance (* 50 1024)
   "If non-nil, maximum distance to search backwards for matching open-paren.
 If nil, search stops at the beginning of the accessible portion of the buffer."
   :type '(choice (const nil) integer)

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 3889-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#3889: 23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:35:50 -0400
Message-ID: <mf8wihe96h.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Attached is a patch which doubles this to 50kb, as this should be fine for
>> modern machines.
>
> 100kB should be fine, indeed.

So increased.