bug#29381: show-paren-mode should not be globalized

[Stefan Kangas]

Paul Rankin <hello@paulwrankin.com> writes:

> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, at 08:36 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Nov 21 2017, Paul Rankin <hello@paulwrankin.com> wrote:
>>
>> > show-paren-mode is only relevant to buffers displaying code.
>>
>> I disagree.  Plain text also uses balanced parens (like this).
>
> Luckily we don’t need agreement, given that the solution is only to make
> the mode non-global, which will allow user preference, similar to minor
> modes that are only relevant to non-code text, e.g. visual-line-mode.

I don't see any benefit to doing that. But if someone wants to do it,
IMO it should be a _new_ minor mode and not a change to the existing
one.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas