Re: Overlay behavior change

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 11:14:37 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Indeed I "really" need that, or at least that's what I'm used to: I
> use (show-paren-mode) with (setq show-paren-style 'expression), and
> during the last twenty years or so it has implicitly used ":extend t".

My suggestion is to try the new display first, you might like it after
some time.  There's no need to paint the entire line with the
background color, just the text should be enough.  That it looks
strange at first is just a (bad) habit we all have.