From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Ibrahim Awwal <ibrahim.awwal@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing emacs syntax highlighting options?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:15:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B9D47D.2030400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b675a0c5-e722-40d2-b7a1-4f478ca719d4@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
Ibrahim Awwal wrote:
> Hi, I'm completely new to emacs. I'm using it for a computer science
> at UC Berkeley, either through PuTTY or Xming. When using Xming I get
> the X version of emacs, which has the options menu and allows me to
> specify syntax highlighting and parenthesis matching. However, for the
> command line version over PuTTY I can't seem to do that. I see the
> same menus at the top but I don't know how to get to them. I've read
> the tutorial but maybe I missed something? Can someone help me enable
> parenthesis matching? It's a lot faster using PuTTY than Xming and I
> don't need the graphical emacs, but programming Scheme is a pain
> without parenthesis matching. Thanks for the help.
Do you mean show-paren-mode?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-30 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-30 19:01 Changing emacs syntax highlighting options? Ibrahim Awwal
2008-08-30 19:58 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-08-30 23:15 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.18023.1220138120.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-31 1:07 ` Ibrahim Awwal
2008-08-31 18:05 ` formido
2008-09-06 8:16 ` Andy Stewart
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