Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window

[Daniel Martín]

Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> writes:

> Although emacs is capable of highlighting parentheses, when the matching 
> parentheses
> is located outside the visible window, there is no chance to see where a 
> closing 
> parenthesis actually matches.  Can there be a solution to this?

There are many ways to achieve that:

- C-M-b C-M-f to move backward and forward a balanced expression.

- Delete and reinsert the parenthesis.  You will see in the echo area
  the text "Matches ..." that informs you about the matching
  parenthesis.

- In Emacs 29, I introduced a new defcustom for show-paren-mode,
  show-paren-context-when-offscreen, which will automatically show the
  matching parenthesis information in the echo area when the point is
  next to the closing parenthesis, without needing to reinsert it.