Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window

[Heime]

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On Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 at 5:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:48:05 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > "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.
> 
> 
> That's not what show-paren-mode is supposed to do. There are many
> packages out there which highlight parenthesized expressions, I'm sure
> you will find one that suits your needs.

Any good ones?