Re: Emacs default bindings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 16:53:57 +0200
> Cc: "Philip K." <philipk@posteo.net>, Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>,
>  Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
>  Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com>,
>  Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>  Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> I've always found the effect of show-paren-mode pointless (and rather
> annoying) when writing prose, e.g. in org-mode.

I have a contrary anecdote to convey: when I type text (for example,
an email message), I sometimes fail to press Shift in time, so instead
of '(' I get '9'.  Then when I type the closing parenthesis,
show-paren alerts me to the problem.