Re: Emacs default bindings

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08.09.2021 17:53, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> 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.

It's an option, but if you are in the minority, maybe we'll just suggest 
you turn it off locally.

I've never had problems with having it enabled with prose, but then 
again I don't use Org.

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

We don't, but it seems like a minor variation in show-paren-mode's 
behavior. Might be easy enough to find a place to plug it in, for 
someone interested in the feature.