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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Matching parenthesis for long constructs
Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 20:09:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jb6n9gr.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86ikzm6ffj.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 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.

This is good, no idea why it isn't set by default.

(setq show-paren-context-when-offscreen t)

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-09 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-09 12:33 Matching parenthesis for long constructs Heime
2024-05-09 14:00 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-05-09 14:22   ` Heime
2024-05-09 14:48     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-05-09 15:35       ` Emanuel Berg
2024-05-11  1:43         ` Drew Adams
2024-05-11  5:40         ` tomas
2024-05-09 16:58       ` Heime
2024-05-09 17:45         ` Drew Adams
2024-05-09 17:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 18:09           ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2024-05-11  6:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 18:24         ` Yuri Khan
2024-05-09 18:29           ` Emanuel Berg
2024-05-09 18:57           ` Heime
2024-05-09 19:45             ` Heime
2024-05-09 19:46             ` Yuri Khan
2024-05-09 20:44               ` Drew Adams
2024-05-09 15:14     ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-05-09 15:38       ` Emanuel Berg
2024-05-11  4:58         ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-05-09 14:24   ` Emanuel Berg
2024-05-09 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-05-09 21:49 ` Daniel Martín
2024-05-10 19:38   ` tpeplt

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