Re: parenthesis matching in lisp mode

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

Phillip Garland <pgarland@u.washington.edu> writes:

> When in a lisp mode buffer do 
>
> M-x show-paren-mode
>
> or add this in your .emacs file to have this done automatically:
>
> (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (show-paren-mode)))
>
> ~Phillip

David mentioned already that this should be `(show-paren-mode 1)'.
Besides that `show-paren-mode' is a _global_ minor mode. So a simple

(show-paren-mode 1)

in your .emacs would do. You have it in all major mode then, but that
won't hurt IMO. If you really want it *only* in lisp-mode, you have to
make it buffer local first:

(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook
	  (lambda ()
	    (make-local-variable 'show-paren-mode)
	    (show-paren-mode 1)))

    Oliver
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