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  • That is correct. Have noticed that putting the cursor on the opening brace highlights the closing brace. But putting the cursor does not highlight the opening brace. One has to go to the character following the closing brace. Because elisp customarily has many consecutive closing braces, using the consecutive character to highlight the matching opening brace is counter productive. Commented Mar 24, 2022 at 18:48
  • @Veak try setting Show Paren When Point Inside Paren to t. most things are possible, you just have to go looking sometimes Commented Mar 24, 2022 at 21:05
  • Consider the following (setq initial-frame-alist '((width . 72) (height . 26)) ). Would expect that putting the cursor in the space between (width . 72) and (height . 26) would highlight the entire (width . 72) (height . 26). But (setq show-paren-when-point-inside-paren t) does not do that. It is very non-intuitive and difficult when debugging because one got to remember suck quirks. Also, if you put the cursor on the parenthesis following (height . 26), only (height . 26) gets highlighted, rather than the entire (height . 26) (height . 26). Commented Mar 24, 2022 at 21:18