Re: Emacs default bindings

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28.09.2021 03:23, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> 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 ;-(

Also note that we have had paren-matching behavior in text modes for a 
long time.

It's just using something other than show-paren-mode: 
blink-matching-paren has defaulted to t since 1997.