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Re: Changing emacs syntax highlighting options?         

Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Date: Aug 30, 2008 12:29

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.

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