bug#14395: 24.3; [PATCH] new feature smie-highlight-matching-block

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I think the `remove-hook' should be done within the body of the
>> smie-highlight-matching-block-mode minor mode rather than here.
>> In here, you just need to wrap the add-hook within a test of
>> smie-highlight-matching-block-mode.
> But the post insert hook is buffer-local.

I know, but removing it where you remove it has mostly no effect (it's
normally run from a major-mode body, so all the vars have been set
back to their global value).

> Seems too much trouble to find all of them and remove-hook.

That's fine.  But doing it where you currently do it is a waste.

>> BTW.  Is there a non-SMIE version of "highlight-matching-block-mode",
>> which does it for parentheses?  If yes, maybe
>> smie-highlight-matching-block-mode should integrate into it.
> I am not sure there is.

Doesn't show-paren-mode do that?

>> One more thought, maybe you were right that futzing around with
>> add/remove-hook is too complicated and it's easier to check a variable.
>> But then maybe smie-highlight-matching-block-mode should set
>> blink-matching-paren to nil (which brings us back to whether there's
>> a global highlight-matching-block-mode working not just for modes using
>> SMIE).
> Maybe checking smie-highlight-matching-block-mode in
> smie-blink-matching-open is the better solution because
> post-self-insert-hook is buffer-local.

OK.
BTW, feel free to commit your current code in the mean time.


        Stefan