From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Geoff Gole" <geoffgole@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:20:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwsd05z9g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5bc73230901120418h76475b06ia84f908aa97b84e7@mail.gmail.com> (Geoff Gole's message of "Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:18:35 +0900")
> By default, emacs will display a minibuffer message on seeing the user
> type an unmatched paren. This is usually a welcome feature, but can
> become annoying when point is in the minibuffer where well-formed
> input is not necessarily balanced.
Maybe the problem can be fixed by changing the way the message is
displayed. E.g. it could be displayed as " [unmatched paren]" at the
end of the minibuffer input, as is done for minibuffer
completion messages.
> I attempted to implement this by binding blink-matching-paren and
> show-paren-mode. Unfortunately that continues to inhibit paren
> matching if the user moves out of the minibuffer, so is not
> satisfactory.
For those, you'd need to set the variable buffer-locally rather than
let-bind it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 12:18 Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer Geoff Gole
2009-01-12 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-01-13 2:26 ` Miles Bader
2009-01-13 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-13 15:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-13 18:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-13 18:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-14 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 22:30 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-13 13:58 ` Geoff Gole
2009-01-13 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-13 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-14 13:46 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-14 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-14 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-14 21:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 22:22 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-14 23:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-15 0:52 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-15 2:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-16 19:10 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-16 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-16 23:42 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-17 2:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 22:13 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-14 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-14 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 18:56 ` Geoff Gole
2009-01-14 21:14 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-14 22:20 ` Geoff Gole
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2009-01-14 23:16 Chetan Pandya
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