Re: Emacs default bindings

[Stefan Kangas]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> 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.

That's true.  Not a great default IMO, they should have enabled it only
in `prog-mode'.  ;-)

`blink-matching-paren' is less distracting though, as the paren is only
highlighted when it's first written.