Re: position on changing defaults?

[Mathias Dahl]

>  I find blink-matching-open quite annoying.  OTOH, show-paren-mode is
>  among the very first things I turn on in an uncustomized Emacs.
>  (Actually I normally use mic-paren.el; the feature I miss in paren.el is
>  that when point is directly between two parens, it can highlight both
>  the preceding and following matching parens.)

I agree. I have recently started to use show-paren-mode and like it
better than blink-matching-open. Previously I always removed a parent
and then added it again, just to see where the matching one blinked.