GNU bug report logs - #3889
23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance

Previous Next

Full log

Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Ian Eure <ian <at> digg.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:49:46 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

A user came into #emacs today complaining that his paren matching was  
not working with a large file, and that font-locking broke as a result.

I found that this is controlled by blink-matching-paren-distance,  
which was increased to 25kb around 1997.

Attached is a patch which doubles this to 50kb, as this should be fine  
for modern machines. I think that we should seriously consider setting  
the default to nil, but this seems like a more conservative approach  
to the matter.

[blink-matching-paren.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

[Message part 3 (text/plain, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.