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Re: Scheme is too complicated

Lars Arvestad <arve@nada.kth.se> writes:

 > >> Hmm, does any Emacs expert know if this can this be done with Emacs's
 > >> font-lock-mode?
 > 
 > HJS> Put:
 > HJS>    (load-library "paren")
 > HJS> in your .emacs & whenever the cursor is near a parentheis then emacs
 > HJS> will hilight that parenthesis & the matching one.  It should be easy
 > HJS> enough to modify the above to hilight the entire expression, but I
 > HJS> find this sufficient & unobtrusive.
 > 
 > If you do want it, add 
 > 	(setq paren-mode 'sexp)
 > after the load, but I agree the default is excellent. 
 > 
 > See also M-x describe-variable: paren-mode. 

Looks like it's a recent development.  I'm running version 19.34 & it
doesn't have a paren-mode variable.

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
BFM Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il