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From: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Show Paren mode: New prelude style
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d1il3e88.fsf@realize.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83funhu82n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:26:24 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:27:59 +0200
>> 
>> Below you will find a patch to extend show-paren-mode with a new
>> `prelude' style.  It's an extension of `parenthesis' style.  If the
>> matching opening paren is not visible, it will show the line of text
>> containing it as an overlay on the window's start line.
>
> Any reasons for lack of symmetry with the closing paren?

It's just because I thought the opposite is much less useful, as there
is probably less entropy in the lines containing the closing parens.  I
might be wrong though.

Symmetry for sure is a valid point and I will extend it if you think
it's worth it.

Alain




  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-27 12:27 Show Paren mode: New prelude style Alain Schneble
2016-10-27 12:51 ` Alain Schneble
2016-10-31 19:30   ` Richard Copley
2016-10-31 19:57     ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2016-10-27 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-27 17:15   ` Alain Schneble [this message]
2016-10-27 17:31     ` Eli Zaretskii

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