Subject: Re: bug#52841: show-paren paring error in org-mode source blocks

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 18:14:17 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> I can reproduce the problem in Gnus, too, but I'm not that familiar with
>> how show-paren works -- does it just use the syntax properties in the
>> buffer?
>
> Yes, it does.

Hm...  but the parentheses machines has the concept of matching pairs,
right?  Let's see...

    (modify-syntax-entry ?> ")<" table)
    (modify-syntax-entry ?< "(>" table)

Right.  So why does it think that < is the opening char for )?

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