From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Highlighting parentheses
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:03:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvljso1x4b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bptku3cf.fsf@telefonica.net> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:59:44 +0100")
> I like the feature but there is one caveat: parentheses are narrow and
> colorizing is not the most effective way of making them
> highly visible.
Which makes me wonder: in which context is this coloring
useful/desirable? In Lisp at least, we usually don't want to make
parentheses highly visible: learning Lisp is (to a large extent)
teaching your eyes to ignore parentheses.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-02 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 16:43 Highlighting parentheses Richard M Stallman
2009-02-02 17:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-02-02 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-02-02 21:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-02-02 18:06 ` Drew Adams
2009-02-02 19:25 ` Will Farrington
2009-02-03 9:58 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-02 19:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-02-02 19:57 ` Will Farrington
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