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: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 08:16:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83o7txn8wf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <835yg8p1w9.fsf@gnu.org> <83eduuon7o.fsf@gnu.org> <83v8o6mqph.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfjampqf.fsf@gnu.org> <25rnobC_Yy1KG95UB9AlCO-5QTRxGRhAULFPcFlAsS4CsE1LhGFd1fqNK1By6dSk2KhzY5sWD4fCLvE0zt8FS3EjCAUaWC11fvfb4Lh5m6E=@protonmail.com> <83r0yumntg.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13136"; 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 Thu Oct 27 07:18:16 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 1onvHT-0003Bc-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:18:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onvG1-00056p-2Q; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onvFy-0004zA-Iw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onvFy-0007GD-53 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:16:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=ItgC6HHVQHOk7uLnNeYDZzV0dJ3QNYphMKLcHNzQM1o=; b=mi07SH9xI4m5 G5uvQCNNmIsQ0KGR64CrZhjJTVm21RNK2iv0ze61CeEZgzXRGZu0yFaw3M9LDmYvAXCk2UJpTdIfK F8BQQLhDgs6d1TM80rZhlP6QhDQ05zW7poy/Ayrb67vefhIt/df2nWMp25m9ZgeO2Mtt4OytPA5mS HnO1pkeCuAjLJoxRL84Tf9Na1QXAiBQglgbvhYsK9ZEcTn6y77kL8xWnxwxNdKQ1XQs4q+rn3Cf19 TnvgXAjoF+rG0LPylzmE8JKGO0oGH52hOc3Q/HfAFH/aMFFhpF4havy1zpuETQLrEfFDKd1YHuUj4 CLug+EOGXDqMWnEdv4CiTA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (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 1onvFx-0004V8-8q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:16:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:14:57 +0000) 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: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140419 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:14:57 +0000 > From: Heime > 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.