From: forkosh@panix.com   
      
   John Forkosh  wrote:   
   > Javier  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Are you having the problem in X11 or in terminal (ie. emacs -nw)?   
   >   
   > Thanks for the reply, Javier... In X11. I'd never used terminal,   
   > but since you mentioned it, I tried: 28.2 -nw blinks matching {}   
   > braces, but doesn't blink matching () parens, whereas X11 blinks   
   > both. Weird. Go figure.   
   >   
   >> If the problem happens in graphical mode it would also good to know   
   >> the toolkit and the options at compilation-time   
   >>     C-h v system-configuration-options   
   >   
   > I have both 27.2 and 28.2 running, i.e., /usr/bin/ has   
   >  emacs -> emacs-with-x11   
   >  emacs-27.2-no-x11   
   >  emacs-27.2-with-x11   
   >  emacs-28.2-no-x11   
   >  emacs-28.2-with-x11   
   >  emacs-no-x11 -> emacs-28.2-no-x11   
   >  emacs-with-x11 -> emacs-28.2-with-x11   
   > (and /usr/share/emacs/ and /usr/libexec/emacs/ have both   
   >  27.2 and 28.2 subdirectories)   
   > and I just flip the /usr/bin/emacs-with-x11 symlink to 27.2   
   > to stop the bleeping blinking ("bleeping" being a euphemism:).   
      
   I tried another test to see whether any of the many elisp   
   files used by emacs has any effect (it apparently doesn't).   
   In /usr/share/emacs/ I now have   
    27.2 -> 27.2_dir/   
    27.2_dir   
    28.2 -> 28.2_dir/   
    28.2_dir   
    site-lisp -> site-lisp-28.2_dir/   
    site-lisp-27.2_dir   
    site-lisp-28.2_dir   
   where the _dir's contain the actual files for 27.2 and 28.2,   
   and I can flip the symlinks any which way I like. So I pointed   
   those to 28.2 as shown, and similarly for the subdirectories   
   under /usr/libexec/emacs/. But in /usr/bin/ I have   
    emacs-with-x11 -> emacs-27.2-with-x11   
   whereby I'm running 27.2 with all the 28.2 elisp stuff.   
   And the result is ... no blinking. So any differences   
   in the elisp stuff between 27.2 and 28.2 is apparently   
   not responsible for the behavior.   
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   John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )   
      
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