Suppose all "blink-matching..." variables at their standard settings. When I now insert a closing paren in the current buffer and (a) the matching paren is before `window-start' and (b) the `buffer-substring' to be displayed by `blink-matching-open' contains at least one bold character, the following happens: Emacs resizes the echo area to show the string (apparently to accomodate the bold character) and recenters the current buffer. The combined effects are distracting.
A workaround is to replace `buffer-string' in `blink-matching-open' by `buffer-substring-no-properties'. Binding `max-mini-window-height' temporarily to 1 is better - Emacs doesn't recenter any more but still resizes the echo area. Personally, I'd prefer a solution that would not resize the echo area at all in this particular case but probably I'm asking too much. An aside: When I activate `show-paren-mode' the latter setqs the variable `blink-matching-paren-on-screen'. Customizing that variable now tells me "CHANGED outside Customize; operating on it here may be unreliable". _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
