From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:14:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h0WN4GNTPli9-KivOM-v-zh1rQT1-xfcakirkzgXoIlSujedv5sunFKtrt7kzD2VmKP-REt6FaAZhzdlSd6bAHfWRC5aJbGdadNuj92tyGc=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r0yumntg.fsf@gnu.org>
------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 at 6:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 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.
There are many function longer than the height of a normal emacs
window. Thusly I fail to conclude that it is a rarely-needed
functionality. Because the show-paren-mode functionality fails when
the window is small or the function is long, technically it should
be considered a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-26 19:14 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
2022-10-26 19:14 ` Heime [this message]
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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