From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Matching parenthesis for long constructs Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 20:52:32 +0300 Message-ID: <86ikzm6ffj.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24290"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 19:53:14 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s57xB-00061U-4t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 19:53:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s57we-0005i3-2Z; Thu, 09 May 2024 13:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s57wa-0005hd-H7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 13:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s57wa-0003hK-7g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 13:52:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=T91C/ERAciIccQoyuPGk+ub1ugwBN4/nyMiBiIkf7Hk=; b=CatQutJ5+xJX nGJiK0AtzhDxfdabTtQVNZxJ2e1cBY1AQMIcGrSS0GrPP57uoIaw3bqbnXaakqUftbBRP0Ktdkw3U /i6PjsHGpiptqmXNcmgkqs6KYpwIPGZNYxJ/sfxO4keWpYEMqbXKxYFo5nl9ygYwTa3Ly6TqsiKKr s7CwvgvbtA54uu4QeeHLifCuCdk0pnwyL59jKOVgNwLglKByHIYWkQ3dGtt2PX/c313JJS3tircaV +Apg0ow4tm4WFk0bkZjqbSjJbTHgVDAhftl6mbg1U5ipThEyFlaUpI5p/WVEQvEj9CWeIiOCSOUym ONjA2grRmmMWcQD9j//NZw==; In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Thu, 09 May 2024 16:58:55 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146627 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 16:58:55 +0000 > From: Heime > Cc: Pierre Rouleau , > Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > > On Friday, May 10th, 2024 at 2:48 AM, Drew Adams wrote: > > > I assume you've already turned on `show-paren-mode'. In particular,` blink-matching-paren'. Increase the > > value of `blink-matching-paren-distance', if you like. > > ___ > > > > You really should Ask Emacs, to help yourself. > > This is what the manual says > > "Whenever you type a self-inserting character that is a closing delimiter, > Emacs briefly indicates the location of the matching opening delimiter, > provided that is on the screen. If it is not on the screen, Emacs displays > some of the text near it in the echo area. Either way, you can tell which > grouping you are closing off." > > Basically the feature is useful only for short expressions. No, not only. Don't stop reading where you stopped, read on. You will find there the description of show-paren-mode and the variables that control how far forward/back Emacs looks for the patching paren, and what it does when the matching paren in outside of the window. There are options there that we believe should fit anyone's taste, just choose what you like best.