Re: Highlighting parentheses when matching parentheses resides outside visible window

[Heime]

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On Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 at 6:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > 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.

There are many function longer than the height of a normal emacs
window.  Thusly I fail to conclude that it is a rarely-needed 
functionality.  Because the show-paren-mode functionality fails when 
the window is small or the function is long, technically it should
be considered a bug.