bug#40814: 26.3; show-paren-mode hightlights parentheses at eol

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com> writes:

> would highlight `(paren)` only if the point is at the end of the line,
> not the beginning. This would also be consistent with the following
> case
>
>    (paren1) some other text (paren2)
>
> where, correctly, (paren1) is highlighted if the point is in the
> beginning of the line and (paren2) is highlighted if the point is in
> the end of the line.

Looking at the code and the documentation, as far as I can tell, this is
working as designed (even if it's slightly eccentric).  With this
setting, when point is in the "periphery" of a line, it'll highlight the
closest parens -- if those parens are also in the "periphery".  Which is
what the manual says:

@vindex show-paren-when-point-in-periphery
@code{show-paren-when-point-in-periphery}, when non-@code{nil}, causes
highlighting also when point is in whitespace at the beginning or end
of a line, and there is a paren at, respectively, the first or last,
or the last, non-whitespace position on the line.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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