Re: Emacs default bindings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  rms@gnu.org,  philipk@posteo.net,
>   danflscr@gmail.com,  lokedhs@gmail.com,  yantar92@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:37:58 +0200
> 
> I haven't really been following this thread, but it's about making
> `show-paren-mode' default in Emacs 28?  I'm not sure that's quite the
> right thing to do at this point -- as bug#29381 points out, it probably
> shouldn't be a global minor mode, but should instead be a globalized
> minor mode (since that'll make it easier to switch on/off on a
> per-major-mode basis).
> 
> So it should be rewritten as a show-paren-mode/show-paren-local-mode and
> then enabled, but that's too late for Emacs 28.

FWIW, I don't think that minor issue should prevent us from turning it
on.  Many people do that, so the problems in bug#29381 cannot be too
grave.  We could fix them later.