Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window

[Heime]

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On Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 at 5:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:05:35 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > I would like the possibility of freezing the highlighting (not only when 
> > using
> > 'expression put also for 'parenthesis). Currently I loose all the 
> > parenthesis
> > or expression highlighting when I need to move through the code.
> 
> 
> "Freezing" until what happens? what would cause the highlight to be
> turned off?
> 
> Anyway, if this is what you want, then show-paren-mode is not the
> solution. show-paren-mode is explicitly programmed to show you the
> parenthesized/braced construct before/after point, so if you move
> point, you cannot expect the highlight to remain "frozen".

Been thinking of a toggle at user request.  Once you get the highlighting
call a hold-highlighting function.