Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:23:20 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > 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.
> 
> All the highlighting functionality is there.  Is it not possible to add a 
> toggle
> function to keep the highlighting once some function is called, then call it 
> again
> to have show-paren-mode work normally again.

It would not be show-paren-mode, then.

> Or some other solution you think might work?

I'm sure people here will point you to other highlighting packages.
I'm not familiar with them, but I know that there are quite a few.

> The show-paren-mode tools work well until the highlighting goes
> outside the current window pane.

It's a rarely-needed functionality, for the purpose for which
show-paren-mode was designed.