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-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/programs.texi3
-rw-r--r--lisp/simple.el17
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/programs.texi b/doc/emacs/programs.texi
index 2eb999d2c28..8f78a1a54b6 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/programs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/programs.texi
@@ -814,7 +814,8 @@ opening delimiter and closing delimiter are mismatched---such as in
@code{blink-matching-paren} turns the feature on or off: @code{nil}
disables it, but the default is @code{t} to enable it. Set it to
@code{jump} to make indication work by momentarily moving the cursor
-to the matching opening delimiter.
+to the matching opening delimiter. Set it to @code{jump-offscreen} to
+make the cursor jump, even if the opening delimiter is off screen.
@item
@code{blink-matching-delay} says how many seconds to keep indicating
diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 0d691eabdf2..ea439757858 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -6873,17 +6873,22 @@ If called from Lisp, enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil."
(defcustom blink-matching-paren t
"Non-nil means show matching open-paren when close-paren is inserted.
-If t, highlight the paren. If `jump', move cursor to its position."
+If t, highlight the paren. If `jump', briefly move cursor to its
+position. If `jump-offscreen', move cursor there even if the
+position is off screen. With any other non-nil value, the
+off-screen position of the opening paren will be shown in the
+echo area."
:type '(choice
(const :tag "Disable" nil)
(const :tag "Highlight" t)
- (const :tag "Move cursor" jump))
+ (const :tag "Move cursor" jump)
+ (const :tag "Move cursor, even if off screen" jump-offscreen))
:group 'paren-blinking)
(defcustom blink-matching-paren-on-screen t
"Non-nil means show matching open-paren when it is on screen.
If nil, don't show it (but the open-paren can still be shown
-when it is off screen).
+in the echo area when it is off screen).
This variable has no effect if `blink-matching-paren' is nil.
\(In that case, the open-paren is never shown.)
@@ -6987,13 +6992,15 @@ The function should return non-nil if the two tokens do not match.")
(minibuffer-message "No matching parenthesis found")
(message "No matching parenthesis found"))))
((not blinkpos) nil)
- ((pos-visible-in-window-p blinkpos)
+ ((or
+ (eq blink-matching-paren 'jump-offscreen)
+ (pos-visible-in-window-p blinkpos))
;; Matching open within window, temporarily move to or highlight
;; char after blinkpos but only if `blink-matching-paren-on-screen'
;; is non-nil.
(and blink-matching-paren-on-screen
(not show-paren-mode)
- (if (eq blink-matching-paren 'jump)
+ (if (memq blink-matching-paren '(jump jump-offscreen))
(save-excursion
(goto-char blinkpos)
(sit-for blink-matching-delay))