Re: Emacs default bindings

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 06.09.2021 06:06, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>>    > > show-paren-mode seems universally acclaimed as well (though
>> prelude and
>>    > > doom-emacs use smartparens for a similar effect), so why not enable 
>> it too.
>> Let's announce on info-gnu that we tentatively plan to make this the
>> default in Emacs 28, and ask users to try it now and tell us now if
>> they see a reason to change that plan.
>
> So: the feedback we received has been universally positive.
>
> Two email replies to my personal inbox, and a handful of responses on
> Emacs Help.
>
> Unless anybody has strong objections, I'll flip the default tomorrow.

I'd had (show-paren-mode 1) in my init to begin with, and now that gives
me a recursive load error at startup. If I comment it out I can start
normally, but just running M-x show-paren-mode gives me the same
recursive load error.