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Re: Not appropriate message for mismatched parens
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: Not appropriate message for mismatched parens |
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Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:06:24 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Herbert Euler wrote:
> The variable `blink-matching-paren-distance' limits searching
> regionfor blinking matching parens. However, the error message for
> the casein which the distance between the opening paren and the
> closing parenis larger than `blink-matching-paren-distance' is not
> so veryappropriate. It says "Mismatched parenthesis", just the same
> as forthe normal cases.This may be not the truth in some cases.
While everything you say is true, with the default settings the
parentheses must be separated by > 320 lines of 80 column text for
this problem to occur. I suggest it is therefore acceptable to leave
this as is for Emacs 22, and fix it properly afterwards.