Subject: bug#68234: [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance by 300kb.

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:31:17 +0200

> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:48:41 +0000
> From:  Antero Mejr via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> >From 8875e658456074e92272bcbb6d31c8db47d4658a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Antero Mejr <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 18:29:43 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] Increase blink-matching-paren-distance by 300kb.
> 
> * lisp/simple.el (blink-matching-paren-distance): Increase from 100kb
> to 400kb.  (Bug#68234)
> ---
>  lisp/simple.el | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
> index 4f6d2ee12c3..d4a339f37dc 100644
> --- a/lisp/simple.el
> +++ b/lisp/simple.el
> @@ -9260,10 +9260,10 @@ It is also ignored if `show-paren-mode' is enabled."
>    :type 'boolean
>    :group 'paren-blinking)
>  
> -(defcustom blink-matching-paren-distance (* 100 1024)
> +(defcustom blink-matching-paren-distance (* 400 1024)
>    "If non-nil, maximum distance to search backwards for matching open-paren.
>  If nil, search stops at the beginning of the accessible portion of the buffer."
> -  :version "23.2"                       ; 25->100k
> +  :version "23.2"                       ; 25->100k->400k
>    :type '(choice (const nil) integer)
>    :group 'paren-blinking)

Do people feel okay with increasing this value by a factor of 4?  This
blinking is supposed to be very fast, so if this will slow down
display, it's not TRT.