Subject: Re: [External] : bug#50894: Disable show-paren-mode in special modes

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:49:33 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  "[email-masked]"
>  <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:58:35 +0300
> 
> > We cater to users.  We give them optional behaviors.
> > Some such we turn on by default.  Some users don't
> > like the default behaviors, so they customize.
> >
> > Nothing new.
> 
> The question is whether emphasizing the parens at the
> first line of 'C-h C-h' was an intentional change or not.
> If not, then it's a bug.

The intent is to emphasize parens _everywhere_.  That's what the
feature does, and that's what we intended to turn on by default, and
asked users to provide feedback about.