Parenthesis matching should consider the kind of parenthesis during pair-search

["Herman, Géza" <geza.herman@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Emacs parenthesis matching works differently than I'd have 
expected (what show-paren-mode shows).  As I understand it, it 
searches for the matching pair by not considering the kind of the 
parenthesis (no matter whether it's a curly/square/etc bracket). 
And after it found it, then it considers the kind, and if there is 
a mismatch then it is shown in red.  Usually this is not a 
problem, because parentheses come in pairs which are usually 
nested.  But if this is not true, then Emacs works unexpectedly in 
my opinion.  See this Makefile example: "$(info })" (this prints a 
} to stdout).  In this case, emacs shows } as the "matching" pair 
of the (.  And as the kind doesn't match, it's a mismatch.  But 
I'd have expected that the pair of ( is the ), and } doesn't have 
a matching pair (because this is what actually happens in this 
example).

What do you think, shouldn't Emacs consider the kind of 
parenthesis when during searching for a pair? (in other words, it 
should ignore all other kinds of parentheses when it searches for 
a pair)

Thanks,
Geza