RE: Finding packages to enable by default

[Drew Adams]

> > +1 - I don't think we need show-paren-mode enabled by default that
> > much, but we definitely need to disable the horrible
> > `blink-matching-paren'.
> 
> I do think we need some paren-matching enabled by default.
> I'm surprised blink-matching-paren can elicit such strong sentiments,
> since I myself find it very nice, providing just enough info to be
> useful (including when the open paren is out of sight) without getting
> in the way (you can just ignore the cursor-jump if you don't care about it).

FWIW, I have both `show-paren-mode' and `blink-matching-paren' turned on.

There is *no* cursor bouncing from the latter, when both are on (at least
I don't notice any).

And the latter gives me the advantage of showing info in the echo area
whenever the match is off-window.