> 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.

> 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.

> 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...

> One other question, when I am running emacs and I have two buffers
> open together (editing on top and scheme on the bottom) in the X
> version I can click on the top half to get back to my editing window,
> but with the command line version I can't. I've been resorting to c-x
> 1 c-x b to switch back to the editing buffer but I'm sure there's a
> better way. Sorry for my noobishness, I have about two days worth of
> emacs experience.