Subject: RE: bug#5709: Subject: 23.1; Pls remove antique limit of 25600 bytes of paren matching

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:42:14 -0800

> > There seems to be an arbitrary limit on the parenthesis
> > matching, which is antique and useless.
> 
> You can set blink-matching-paren-distance to nil. The default limit
> has already been increased for Emacs 23.2.

I see that you closed this bug (#5709).

OK, but #5122 should remain open, to make clear that this still isn't solved
satisfactorily. Being able to customize it and upping the default value are not
complete answers.

As Stefan said near the current end of the #5122 thread:

  Clearly, the only real answer is to get rid of
  blink-matching-paren-distance.  We could try and do that,
  maybe using while-no-input.

There is also other discussion in that thread about the general problem and what
might be done about it.