Subject: bug#17008: 24.3.50; If `blink-matching-paren' is on, matching paren is only highlighted, no point jumping anymore?

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:14:55 -0400

> If I enable blink-matching-paren all that happens is
> a visual highlight, but no movement of point anymore.
> So this feature is essentially completely useless for me now.
> But I use it on a daily basis.

Indeed, we did not take your case into account.  Thanks for bringing it up.

> If there is a way to configure Emacs such to get
> the old behaviour back, please tell me how, and maybe
> document it more clearly?

No, there's no option for that, yet.  We need to add one.

        Stefan