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- x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from help-lucid-emacs to alt.lucid-emacs.help; Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:05:04 EDT
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:03:28 PDT
- Message-ID: <9209150303.AA16539@thalidomide.lucid>
- X-Windows: The defacto substandard.
- From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
- Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: blink-paren function
- References: <192fu4INN3j4@early-bird.think.com>
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- In message <47573@shamash.cdc.com> Bruce Dunlop wrote:
- >
- > Wouldn't it be possible to modify the behavior of blink-paren, depending
- > on whether you just typed in a right paren. or not?
-
- The point of blink-paren is to not be tied to insertion. Blinking the
- matching paren just after you've typed one is easy. Blinking it when
- the cursor happens to be on it is a Hack.
-
- > After moving the cursor, it would be more intuitive and consistent to
- > see the blink match the hi-lited character.
-
- You think this because you think of the cursor as being ON a character.
- You have not truly discovered The Way.
-
- -- Jamie
-