Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
This should be a fairly small change, implementation-wise. If we
wanted to do that before the release branch is cut, I don't see a
problem.
It should be done anyway, so the sooner fixed the better (and if we do
change the default, we definitely shouldn't wait).
show-paren-mode has been pretty solid for me over the
years, but of course there might be very different workflows out
there. It can also be semi-broken in some specific major modes, which
change show-paren-function (e.g. SMIE based ones with buggy
grammars). But those should "simply" be fixed.
Yeah, most features in Emacs work well by themselves -- most of the
problems come from unintended interactions with other features, and we
don't know what those failure modes are until people has tested it in
real life situations (since nobody has the same setup).