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 20:58:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sfjampqf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AeHvGzJeiUxA9ZSDnocce-hWGqHF-OGaAKPJPggXLMCCkZyyW2NQ93K-Lu4KES0oKJOywIQKw61fn91uDIiSkDFU0uVC9WXVIUbusfKifz0=@protonmail.com> (message from Heime on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:48:05 +0000)
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:48:05 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > "Freezing" until what happens? what would cause the highlight to be
> > turned off?
> >
> > Anyway, if this is what you want, then show-paren-mode is not the
> > solution. show-paren-mode is explicitly programmed to show you the
> > parenthesized/braced construct before/after point, so if you move
> > point, you cannot expect the highlight to remain "frozen".
>
> Been thinking of a toggle at user request. Once you get the highlighting
> call a hold-highlighting function.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-26 17:58 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 [this message]
2022-10-26 18:03 ` Heime
2022-10-26 18:23 ` Heime
2022-10-26 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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