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Re: Proposed extension of show-paren-mode: Highlight parens when point i
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Proposed extension of show-paren-mode: Highlight parens when point is in L or R margin. |
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Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:39:09 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Hi, Eli.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 05:21:24PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > So: If point is in the LH margin of the code, highlight the first paren
> > on the line and its match, or failing that, the last paren on the line
> > with its match.
> Thanks, but PLEASE don't call this a "margin".
OK, not "margin". But what, then? I tried for some time to come up
with something better that would still fit into a ~78 character first
line of the doc string for the new customisable variable. So far, I've
had this:
"If non-nil, try to show parens when point is in LH or RH margin."
Maybe I could omit the "try to ". Maybe I should. How about something
like:
"If non-nil, show parens when point is before or after the line's code."
? It's a bit clumsy, though.
As for the name "show-paren-when-point-in-margin", that would have to
become "show-parens-when-point-outside-code", or something, which isn't
quite accurate (sometimes, short comments are inside a line of code),
and isn't very nmonic.
> We have already too many overloaded meanings of this term, so let's
> avoid adding yet another one.
Hmm. Or, perhaps we could just admit this, and allow "margin" to be
used loosely whenever appropriate. ;-).
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: Proposed extension of show-paren-mode: Highlight parens when point is in L or R margin., Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/12