bug#56188: 28.1; blink-matching-paren works wrong with non-ASCII parentheses

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> When the cursor is before 【ghi】, highlighting is not done.
>> When the cursor is after  【ghi】, 'd' is highlighted.
>> when the cursor is before 【123】, '6' is highlighted.
>> when the cursor is after  【123】, highlighting is not done.
>
> Looks like this is intentional: see the variable
> multibyte-syntax-as-symbol.  It is t in these two modes.  If you set
> it to nil, you get the behavior you expect.
>
> So it looks like there's no bug here.

I didn't understand what you meant first, but the issue is that there
are no spaces here:

  def【ghi】

I.e., this is one symbol consisting of eight characters.

However, the surprising thing is that it's blinking at all here.  If 】
is symbol constituent, then no blinking should happen, I think?

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