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Re: match paren in console (-nw) mode


From: Martin Bealby
Subject: Re: match paren in console (-nw) mode
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:32:49 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

reader@newsguy.com writes:

> Is it something I can set so that I'll see the matching paren
> highligted whenever my curor is just behind or in front of a paren?
>
> M-x apropos <RET> paren <RET> shows a number of related items, 
> The first of them:
>    blink-matching-paren
> is set `t' and so I see the match on insertion.
>
> None of the other items appear to be about matching/highlighting an
> existing paren.

>From a quick test by running my emacs from a console the following short
snippet appears to work:

(show-paren-mode t)

Hope this helps,
Martin


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