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bug#14787: 24.3, M-x query-replace - useless warning


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#14787: 24.3, M-x query-replace - useless warning
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:10:10 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>>>> It actually depends on `blink-matching-paren', not `show-paren-mode'.
>>>
>>> Okay, thanks. IMO it's a bug nonetheless, it's a warning which might
>>> confuse users.
>>
>> Not sure, IMHO "balanced" replacements like \(foo\|bar\) -> [\1] are
>> more common,
>
> It's about query-replace, not query-replace-regexp

You can make balanced non-regexp replacements in query-replace like
(foo (bar)) -> (bar (foo))

The warning "No matching parenthesis found" helps the users to write
correctly balanced expressions everywhere, including minibuffers.
When you sometimes write an unbalanced expression intentionally,
you can ignore this warning.





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