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29.0.50; Choices for blink-matching-paren

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
Subject: bug#51032: 29.0.50; Choices for blink-matching-paren
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:39:25 +0300

> From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  mardani29 <at> yahoo.es,  51032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:02:23 +0200
> 
> Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >
> >> I'm not talking about the doc string here, I'm talking about the
> >> values in the value menu that the defcustom will show the user when
> >> the user customizes this variable.
> 
> I think the values in the value menu are Ok, the only misleading part of
> docstring was
> 
>     With any other non-nil value, the off-screen position of the opening
>     paren will be shown in the echo area.

It is IMO wrong to have that text there, because 'jump-offscreen'
doesn't do that, and 'jump' does it only of the open-paren is
off-screen.

Please take a look at the changes I just installed: are they OK?

Thanks.

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