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From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing emacs syntax highlighting options?
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:58:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763pitguh.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b675a0c5-e722-40d2-b7a1-4f478ca719d4@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com

Ibrahim Awwal <ibrahim.awwal@gmail.com> writes:

> 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? 

M-`


> 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.

Fetch and use the paredit mode.


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
That will sure show you.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-30 19:58 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 [this message]
2008-08-30 23:15 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [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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