Matching braces in Emacs

Question

In GNU Emacs there is a feature to highlight matching brackets in code with the same colour.

However when the code which the brackets enclose is really long with severa

Answer 1

The first thing that might help is knowing about this option, if you don't already: blink-matching-paren-distance. If the sexp is very large then you need to increase the option value, or else paren matching gives up too soon and it shows a mismatch when there is no mismatch.

The second thing that can help is to be sure that blink-matching-paren and blink-matching-paren-on-screen are both non-nil. Then, to see the opening delimiter, just delete the closing delimiter and then type it again. When you insert it, the opening one will be made evident.