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- From: bjdunlop@shamash.cdc.com (Bruce Dunlop)
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Subject: Re: blink-paren function
- Message-ID: <47573@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 01:50:00 GMT
- References: <47510@shamash.cdc.com> <192fu4INN3j4@early-bird.think.com>
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- In article <192fu4INN3j4@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >Think about how it works when you're initially typing. After you type a
- >right parenthesis, it's to the left of the cursor, and you want the
-
- Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! That's the first explanation I have gotten that made any
- sense.
-
- >the parenthesis of the one you're *about* to type, since Emacs doesn't have
- >ESP yet (I think that's planned for the FSF's version, which may be why
-
- DARN, I was hoping that would be in lemacs 19.3.
-
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- Wouldn't it be possible to modify the behavior of blink-paren, depending on
- whether you just typed in a right paren. or not?
-
- After moving the cursor, it would be more intuitive and consistent to see
- the blink match the hi-lited character. Consistent, because then left and
- right paren matching would both match (blink) the paren matching the
- hi-lited character.
-
- Thanks for the explanation.
-
-
- Jim Dahlberg
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