Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
How come? The only case where I can think of this being distracting is
when using emoticons that may contain parentheses.
Basically, prog-modes have font-locking and therefore this doesn't stand
out that much. In text-modes, it stands out more.
Having slept on this, and thought about it some more, I realize that:
a) It is not clear to me how visually distracting this is, given that
this is only visible when you move point to a parenthesis. I've
lived with and accepted it for years; I'm sure it'll be fine in the
future as well.
b) It is easy to think of exceptions, when highlighting parenthesis will
be very useful even in text-modes.
So, on balance, I don't think the drawbacks I see are strong enough
reason to object to this change. So I wish to withdraw my objection.
I'm not sure this changes much with regards to what will actually
happen, but I wanted to put it out there for the record.