From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing emacs syntax highlighting options? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:58:46 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <8763pitguh.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220125246 4419 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 19:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 21:41:39 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 1KZWKH-0004rH-MM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:41:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZWJI-0005GQ-W3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp3-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OmT1ucj0igZLgPpn+p1HK2GJqxM= Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Aug 2008 21:25:40 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1220124340 news-2.free.fr 27666 88.182.134.169:53360 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161783 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:57125 Archived-At: Ibrahim Awwal 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.