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I am very fond of things akin to vim's 'showmatch' mode where when I close a paren or block or etc. the editor highlights the opening element for a second or so and then returns to baseline.

(I have almost no -ambient- highlighting in my baseline but I know lots of people who do and still derive great value from showmatch for the feedback - from discussions with other people rainbow parens style lisp modes seem to provide a maximum overkill approach to that question but I very much prefer maximum underkill in my own tooling even while wanting to be very sure I'm not making it unduly difficult for collaborators with opposite preferences)



Emacs blink-matching-paren minor mode does this. It’s quite configurable, like every other thing in Emacs.

Some of the alternatives can be found by starting at: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...




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