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bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:42:49 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> I think it's better to modify the echo area message, such that if
>> Emacs hits the blink-matching-paren-distance limit (as opposed to
>> hitting point-min), the message says something like
>> Mismatched parentheses (within blink-matching-paren-distance)
> Error messages shouldn't be so verbose---they can't spell out every bell
> and whistle related to the error.  I prefer leaving things the way they
> are.

But it should be less definitive: rather than just say authoritatively
"mismatched paren", it should at least be more humble and say "can't
find matching paren".


        Stefan





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