From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: show-paren-when-point-inside-paren Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:58:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83ilovmwj1.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18010"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 20 12:59:10 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o3F7e-0004UE-ER for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:59:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39054 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o3F7c-0000hC-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57854) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o3F7B-0000g7-1F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o3F7A-0006Qr-PE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:58:40 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=UwriXYmb6IHfQU1fIqCccJAx4AdYqZpNMY+F3I3phTc=; b=jnLbM0BHx+3Qh0h23E93 vj9coFXbbM+EMzYTyjTrhvoWl1Obhu4/nvzZ2sLd3WdL8+zhsSn9wMggfUtnfUw5rmyM3i1llRSfR mDmlkAaHgLvjn+dtVJeVAnmSZRXDKoygN5dwxghjss6hwdea1ztAfvKBBhpO2C/tXnGqHrV9q88iC 77kOVosGLLVj/Z1Ec/2zQ2R1N+RK4KWAU9ogOswylqueR+4mZJWjVK1wTPh4t7Yloyr/W6zlgsfZi QY59ssh95adyjoKQK2t3tSxnq8Oph5Y8xdW9/x4+p2s9Kox67qN9nDzaNWSO+ImsnJAgL4M2ic7aq T0CPBPqb5yPcGw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2278 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o3F7A-0002dB-8L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:58:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:29:52 +0200 (CEST)) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137938 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:29:52 +0200 (CEST) > From: carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > > Have been trying out > > (setq show-paren-when-point-inside-paren t) > > This only works when cursor is just inside the opening parens.  Is this how it is supposed to work? Yes. > The name itself has tendency for confusion. You are supposed to read the doc string, not just the name. Names cannot be too long, because it becomes inconvenient. And the doc string explicitly answers your question.