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Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes: > ian@bickiia.earlhall.earlham.edu writes: > > Readability: Scheme has a way of leading to long expressions. When > > you get down to it, any functional procedure will be made up of one > > (long) expression. That's hard for humans to parse. I like the > > highlighting that DrScheme does -- when you are at a open or close > > parenthesis, it highlights (without being obnoxious) the expression > > that is enclosed by that parenthesis. The passive nature of the > > highlighting is what makes it nice. (The static code analysis that > > DrScheme does is also nice, but I'm not sure it's helpful enough to > > warrant the complexity of implementing the interface) > > Hmm, does any Emacs expert know if this can this be done with Emacs's > font-lock-mode? Put: (load-library "paren") in your .emacs & whenever the cursor is near a parentheis then emacs will hilight that parenthesis & the matching one. It should be easy enough to modify the above to hilight the entire expression, but I find this sufficient & unobtrusive. -- Harvey J. Stein BFM Financial Research hjstein@bfr.co.il