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* cannot disable paren matching
@ 2016-12-27 20:29 Don Woods
  2016-12-27 21:23 ` Skip Montanaro
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Don Woods @ 2016-12-27 20:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs; +Cc: don

I am having a problem where paren matching is not working as desired,
and I am unable either to turn it off or to make it work correctly.

The specific case where I'm having trouble is in PostScript mode,
when also in Overwrite mode.  When I type a character that acts as a
close paren -- such as > or } -- the character is inserted instead of
overwriting the current char.  Emacs briefly highlights the matching
open paren, or reports a mismatch, as the case may be, but does NOT
remove the char I was intending to overwrite.

Since I don't especially need the paren highlighting in my current
editing, most of my attempts to work around this bug have involved
trying to disable the paren-matching behavior.  I have tried such
things as

(show-paren-mode 0)     ;; no noticeable change

(show-paren-mode nil)   ;; no longer shows matching open
			;; but still does not overwrite

(modify-syntax-entry ?> "w" ps-mode-syntax-table)
			;; > now highlights the char AFTER the matching <
			;; but still does not overwrite
(modify-syntax-entry ?< "w" ps-mode-syntax-table)
			;; when combined with previous, > goes back to
			;; showing matching <, but still does not overwrite

I know I've tinkered with other paren-related vars without success,
but no longer recall everything I tried.

My only successful workaround so far is to scrap postscript-mode and
use fundamental-mode.  I'm using overwrite-mode while editing a portion
of the PostScript file that is a block of "ascii art" data, so don't
really need postscript-mode there, but it's awkward when switching
between the data and code portions of the file.

Note: emacs-version is:
"GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin)
 of 2016-04-22 on osx143.apple.com"

Suggestions appreciated!

	-- Don Woods



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* Re: cannot disable paren matching
@ 2016-12-27 23:18 martin rudalics
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: martin rudalics @ 2016-12-27 23:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: don; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

 > Interestingly, even in fundamental-mode, turning
 > show-paren-mode off does NOT stop emacs from briefly moving to the matching
 > open when I type a close, whether or not I'm in overwrite-mode.

 From what you write here the thing that seems to annoy you is
‘blink-matching-paren’.  Try setting it to nil.

martin




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