Re: Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer

[Stefan Monnier]

> By default, emacs will display a minibuffer message on seeing the user
> type an unmatched paren. This is usually a welcome feature, but can
> become annoying when point is in the minibuffer where well-formed
> input is not necessarily balanced.

Maybe the problem can be fixed by changing the way the message is
displayed.  E.g. it could be displayed as " [unmatched paren]" at the
end of the minibuffer input, as is done for minibuffer
completion messages.

> I attempted to implement this by binding blink-matching-paren and
> show-paren-mode. Unfortunately that continues to inhibit paren
> matching if the user moves out of the minibuffer, so is not
> satisfactory.

For those, you'd need to set the variable buffer-locally rather than
let-bind it.


        Stefan