Subject: bug#54551: show-paren-mode inconsistency

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 22:28:19 +0200

> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 20:13:55 +0000
> From:  goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> I am using show-paren-mode to highlight watching opening or closing parentheses. 
> 
> Have seen that putting the cursor on the opening brace highlights the closing brace. But putting the cursor
> does not highlight the opening brace. One has to go to the character following the closing brace. Because
> elisp customarily has many consecutive closing braces, using the consecutive character to highlight the
> matching opening brace is counter productive.

This is so typing the closing brace shows the matching opening brace.
With your proposal, when I type the closing brace, the opening one
will not be highlighted.

So this is by design, and for a good reason.