Subject: RE: [External] : bug#78396: [PATCH] Add option for not highlight parens inside comments or strings.

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 23:07:05 +0000

> Ideally, we'd want to match closing-parens-in-comments with
> opening-parens-in-comments.

We would?  A comment can contain anything.  A paren in
a comment isn't necessarily a delimiter.  "Parsing"
comments in an a priori way is misguided, on the whole.

What we'd really want is a way _to be able_ to match
closing parens (or other closing delimiters, per the
major mode) within comments.  IOW, this should be an
option (and preferably opt-in, not out).

Just one opinion.  And caveat: I'm not following this
thread - piping up in ignorance of context, including
knowing what might be important for this bug report.