From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing emacs syntax highlighting options? Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:15:09 +0200 Message-ID: <48B9D47D.2030400@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220138143 1825 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 23:15:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ibrahim Awwal Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 31 01:16:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZZgL-0008QN-7S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:16:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42180 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZZfM-00035C-6V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:15:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZZf4-00034A-0w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZZf0-00031N-E0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38399 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZZf0-00031K-8e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:36289) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZZez-0000Dz-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:63241 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KZZey-0005IS-6l; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:15:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080830-0, 2008-08-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KZZey-0005IS-6l. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KZZey-0005IS-6l 48d764b947e9d97a9f3eeb19cab52f7f X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57134 Archived-At: 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?