From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: blink-matching-paren is missing Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:10:39 +1200 Message-ID: <17545.7919.773624.628884@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149838316 530 80.91.229.2 (9 Jun 2006 07:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 09 09:31:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FobSw-0000Gl-JZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:31:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FobSw-0002jo-0w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FobRz-0002Rd-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FobRw-0002PM-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FobRw-0002Oy-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FobZw-0008E4-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-112-218.snap.net.nz [202.124.112.218]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DC576BA81; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:30:32 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 367301D3550; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:10:41 +1200 (NZST) Original-To: Brad Collins In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55779 Archived-At: > I'm running a recent build from CVS (less than a month) and noticed > the following in the manual. > > ,----[ 31.4.3 Automatic Display Of Matching Parentheses ] > | `blink-matching-paren' turns the feature on or off: `nil' disables > | it, but the default is `t' to enable match display. > | > | `blink-matching-delay' says how many seconds to leave the cursor on > | the matching opening delimiter, before bringing it back to the real > | location of point; the default is 1, but on some systems it is useful > | to specify a fraction of a second. > | > | `blink-matching-paren-distance' specifies how many characters back > | to search to find the matching opening delimiter. If the match is not > | found in that distance, scanning stops, and nothing is displayed. This > | is to prevent the scan for the matching delimiter from wasting lots of > | time when there is no match. The default is 25600. > `---- > > None of these appear to exist any longer. If is has been removed then > the manual should reflect this. Please use report-emacs-bug for bug reports. I can see them, they're all in simple.el which should get loaded when Emacs is built. > I was using flash-paren.el do accomplish this which now doesn't seem > to work. This doesn't seem to be part of Emacs. You need to contact the author. > I saw a page on emacs-wiki mentioning paren-set-mode but this doesn't > appear to exist either. This doesn't seem to be part of Emacs either. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob