Re: Emacs default bindings

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> So it should be rewritten as a show-paren-mode/show-paren-local-mode and
>> then enabled
>
> I've always found the effect of show-paren-mode pointless (and rather
> annoying) when writing prose, e.g. in org-mode.  I therefore think it
> should be enabled by default only in prog-mode.

There are also some tricky situations where from what I understand
unusual syntax tables break the highlighting. I remember a forth-mode
wanting to pair the ":" and ";" in word definitions, but show-paren-mode
didn't work as expected.

> By the way, VSCode seems to have a feature to enable highlighting the
> enclosing brackets when inside expressions.  Perhaps we should add
> that feature as well (unless we already have it)?

There is highlight-parentheses (in NonGNU ELPA):
https://sr.ht/~tsdh/highlight-parentheses.el/

> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45182543/highlight-enclosing-bracket-in-visual-studio-code

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic