Hi again,
> Daniel Tam <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I've activated readline support for the Guile repl, but I've found that
>> if my inputrc enables vi-mode, then the bouncing parentheses feature
>> doesn't work. Disabling vi-mode does the trick.
>
> Indeed. For some reason that I cannot determine, the bouncing
> parentheses feature is specifically disabled when the vi keymap is in
> use.
I think I now see the reason for it. I noticed that readline's default
vi keymap includes a binding for '%', which jumps to the paren matching
the one under the cursor. That reminded me, from many years ago when I
used vi more often, that this is the way that old vi traditionally
allows matching parens to be found.
So, I guess the decision long ago to disable bouncing parens when in vi
mode was to match the way that emacs and vi behaved at that time.
However, I just tried modern vim, and I see that it now highlights
matching parens by default. So, we should probably remove the 'if' to
match this newer behavior.
Mark
