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[PATCH] Add option for not highlight parens inside comments or strings.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>, "78396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <78396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#78396: [PATCH] Add option for not highlight parens inside comments or strings.
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. 

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