From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:39:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r0yumntg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25rnobC_Yy1KG95UB9AlCO-5QTRxGRhAULFPcFlAsS4CsE1LhGFd1fqNK1By6dSk2KhzY5sWD4fCLvE0zt8FS3EjCAUaWC11fvfb4Lh5m6E=@protonmail.com> (message from Heime on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:23:20 +0000)
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:23:20 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > That's not what show-paren-mode is supposed to do. There are many
> > packages out there which highlight parenthesized expressions, I'm sure
> > you will find one that suits your needs.
>
> All the highlighting functionality is there. Is it not possible to add a toggle
> function to keep the highlighting once some function is called, then call it again
> to have show-paren-mode work normally again.
It would not be show-paren-mode, then.
> Or some other solution you think might work?
I'm sure people here will point you to other highlighting packages.
I'm not familiar with them, but I know that there are quite a few.
> The show-paren-mode tools work well until the highlighting goes
> outside the current window pane.
It's a rarely-needed functionality, for the purpose for which
show-paren-mode was designed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-26 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-25 11:22 Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window Heime
2022-10-25 11:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-25 12:01 ` Heime
2022-10-25 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-25 22:41 ` Heime
2022-10-26 11:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-26 17:05 ` Heime
2022-10-26 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-26 17:48 ` Heime
2022-10-26 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-26 18:03 ` Heime
2022-10-26 18:23 ` Heime
2022-10-26 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-26 19:14 ` Heime
2022-10-27 5:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 5:46 ` Heime
2022-10-26 17:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25 12:22 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-25 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-26 10:21 ` Daniel Martín
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