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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 09:10:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsfjcxd5l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mOeAK3elym-CccizfRylSuHGadGjc6AV-_HkGuVbY66sSmB2ZGg56tSTI4i4dmzEbWP39A2fxFIK2Wl2aecvZSCSJdY_EqE7nsBuPrgZQas=@protonmail.com

> Although Emacs is capable of highlighting parentheses, when the
> matching parentheses is located outside the visible window, there is
> no chance to see where a closing  parenthesis actually matches.
> Can there be a solution to this?

By default the matching paren's nearby text is displayed in the
echo area if it's outside of the visible part of the buffer.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-25 13:10 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
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 [this message]
2022-10-26 10:21 ` Daniel Martín

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