GNU bug report logs - #61098
29.0.60; Confusing behavior of show-paren-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rah Guzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.60

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 61098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rah Guzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 61098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#61098: 29.0.60; Confusing behavior of show-paren-mode
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:03:20 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It should be an expression that yields a boolean value (that's why the
> variable is named "predicate").  I will improve the doc string when I
> install the final version of the changes.

What I had been missing was how is that expression supposed to yield
a boolean value. I think I gleaned the answer from Dmitry Gutov's message
which is that the expression corresponds to the "condition"
argument of buffer-match-p.

Rahguzar
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