From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 08:16:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o7txn8wf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h0WN4GNTPli9-KivOM-v-zh1rQT1-xfcakirkzgXoIlSujedv5sunFKtrt7kzD2VmKP-REt6FaAZhzdlSd6bAHfWRC5aJbGdadNuj92tyGc=@protonmail.com> (message from Heime on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:14:57 +0000)
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:14:57 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > 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.
show-paren-mode is not for highlighting functions, as its name and
documentation makes clear.
> 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.
It isn't a bug, since show-paren-mode is not supposed to provide what
you want. Other packages do, so I suggest that you find one that
suits your needs and install it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-27 5:16 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 [this message]
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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