Re: Emacs default bindings

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28.09.2021 03:11, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
> > Perhaps you are in the minority?
>
> Perhaps, but I doubt it.  For example, LibreOffice does not highlight
> parenthesis.
>
> This is very much a case of programmers imposing programmer defaults.
> But Emacs is not only used by programmers, it is a general purpose text
> editor.

But where does "code" begins and ends?

E.g. LibreOffice Calc does paren matching when one edits in the cell: 
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/calc-parenthesis-highlighting/31988

And here's a person who apparently had a good reason to want paren 
matching in MS Word: 
https://word.tips.net/T001308_Checking_for_Matching_Parentheses.html

Good enough reason to end up writing a bunch of Basic code ;-(

> > We could flip it on universally, and then later change the behavior in
> > text modes if we get some more negative feedback.
>
> Why not do it the other way around: flip it on for `prog-mode' and later
> turn it on elsewhere if we get feedback that it would be better.

Do you have an implementation strategy in mind, BTW?

The one I suggested (putting 'prog-mode' into show-paren-global-modes) 
has a drawback of actually bothering _every_ existing user: those who 
have not enabled show-paren-mode will see it enabled; but those who have 
enabled it already, will see it disabled in all modes but prog-mode 
descendants, and will then have to hunt down the way to change this.