From: "Herman, Géza" <geza.herman@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Parenthesis matching should consider the kind of parenthesis during pair-search
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:49:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0hh6g1d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
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
next reply other threads:[~2024-02-12 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-12 11:49 Herman, Géza [this message]
2024-02-12 12:34 ` Parenthesis matching should consider the kind of parenthesis during pair-search Joost Kremers
2024-02-12 12:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-12 13:10 ` Herman, Géza
2024-02-12 14:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-12 14:10 ` Herman, Géza
2024-02-12 15:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-12 16:05 ` Herman, Géza
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