Re: Emacs default bindings

[Jim Porter]

On 9/27/2021 4:49 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 28.09.2021 02:40, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> > Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> >
> > > Unless anybody has strong objections, I'll flip the default tomorrow.
> >
> > I still think the default should only be flipped for prog-mode.
> >
> > When writing prose, it does not help to highlight the parens, in fact it
> > is distracting.
>
> We've had a couple of responses like that.
>
> But one asked for being able to disable it locally (which we now can), 
> and another later changed their mind.
>
> Perhaps you are in the minority?

I missed this post originally, so didn't comment back then. I only 
really want this on for prog-mode (and really, I only find it helpful 
when writing Lisp; I'm neutral about it in other languages). It's not 
that big a deal to me either way though; whatever the default is, I'll 
just customize things to my liking.

That said, I also use electric-pair-mode under prog-mode, but customize 
it to be inactive inside strings and comments. My ideal would be for 
show-paren-mode to be active only in the parts of buffers where I have 
electric-pair-mode active, but that would take quite a bit more work. 
(This is just for context about how I use things, not to suggest that 
this should be added to show-paren-mode anytime soon.)

- Jim