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bug#19080: 24.4; wish: enable show-paren-mode to highlight matching same
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19080: 24.4; wish: enable show-paren-mode to highlight matching same-level keywords |
Date: |
Thu, 12 May 2022 08:36:18 +0300 |
> Cc: 19080@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 03:44:43 +0200
>
> > This starts a fresh emacs, loads the tuareg mode, enables
> > show-paren-mode, enters some ocaml code, and puts the point on a 'let'
> > keyword.
> >
> > In this situation, it would be helpful if the 'let' and corresponding
> > 'in' were highlighted in 'show-paren-match-face'. And similarly for
> > "fun", "if", "match", and "try".
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)
>
> I think this is rather beyond the scope of show-paren-mode (which is a
> pretty simple mode that just blinks parentheses, and not much more).
Indeed.
> A new different mode that relies on language semantics to identify
> these things would be nice, but I don't think there's anything
> actionable to be done here, so I'm closing this bug report.
We could perhaps add a new feature, based on tree-sitter, to highlight
a block of code, where the block is defined by PL rules, not by
parens, braces, and similar simple syntactic elements.
Yuan, WDYT? Can this be added to the tree-sitter branch perhaps?