Subject: Re: bug#50766: Regexp paren pairs in query-replace-regexp prompt should be highlighted

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 17:00:03 +0200

> I think that it would help users a lot when constructing regexps, so it
 > would be very welcome.

OK.  I'll try to cook up something useful.

 >> It would not handle 'blink-matching-open'.
 >
 > Is there any way to make that work, too?

Hardly.  'blink-matching-paren' is not timer-based.  Doing any parsing
in between would slow down typing.

 > Some people don't like
 > show-paren-mode, but use 'blink-matching-open' instead.

With 'blink-matching-paren' on do C-M-% and type [)].  People who use
'blink-matching-paren' do not type complex regexps.

martin