Re: address@hidden: parentheses matching failure on valid sexp]

[martin rudalics]

> This bug is because there is a limit on how far back
> blink-matching-open can search for a matching openparen.
>
> That limit is necessary, but it would be nicer to say some different
> message when no openparen is found.  Could someone please implement that,
> and ack?

Maybe something like the patch below should avoid printing a message
in the first place.

*** simple.el.~1.859.2.8.~      Sun Aug 26 22:26:46 2007
--- simple.el   Wed Sep 12 17:17:34 2007
***************
*** 4505,4515 ****
                          (eq (syntax-class syntax) 4)
                          (cdr syntax)))))
        (cond
!        ((not (or (eq matching-paren (char-before oldpos))
!                    ;; The cdr might hold a new paren-class info rather than
!                    ;; a matching-char info, in which case the two CDRs
!                    ;; should match.
!                    (eq matching-paren (cdr (syntax-after (1- oldpos))))))
          (message "Mismatched parentheses"))
         ((not blinkpos)
          (if (not blink-matching-paren-distance)
--- 4505,4516 ----
                          (eq (syntax-class syntax) 4)
                          (cdr syntax)))))
        (cond
!        ((and blinkpos
!              (not (or (eq matching-paren (char-before oldpos))
!                       ;; The cdr might hold a new paren-class info rather than
!                       ;; a matching-char info, in which case the two CDRs
!                       ;; should match.
!                       (eq matching-paren (cdr (syntax-after (1- oldpos)))))))
          (message "Mismatched parentheses"))
         ((not blinkpos)
          (if (not blink-matching-paren-distance)