GNU bug report logs - #78865
31.0.50; Inconsistency between show-paren-mode and some cursor-movement commands

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Message #17 received at 78865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78865: 31.0.50;
 Inconsistency between show-paren-mode and some cursor-movement
 commands
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:17:24 +0300

> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:53:39 +0200
> 
> Consider a C source file like the one created with the shell command below [1].
> 
> If I visit that file with Emacs and move the cursor just before the
> "[", I see that both square brackets are highlighted -- perfect.
> 
> But then, if I type C-M-n from that point, I'd expect the cursor to
> jump from the "[" to the "]".  Well, it does not. Instead, the cursor
> jumps just after "f1()".

Why do you expect C-M-n to do that when the brackets are in comments?
That's not what C-M-n and its ilk are about: they allow to move by
code chunks, not by arbitrary text fragments.

Try this with brackets in code, and I think you will see the behavior
you expect.

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