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Re: Scheme is too complicated



>> Hmm, does any Emacs expert know if this can this be done with Emacs's
>> font-lock-mode?

HJS> Put:
HJS>    (load-library "paren")
HJS> in your .emacs & whenever the cursor is near a parentheis then emacs
HJS> will hilight that parenthesis & the matching one.  It should be easy
HJS> enough to modify the above to hilight the entire expression, but I
HJS> find this sufficient & unobtrusive.

If you do want it, add 
	(setq paren-mode 'sexp)
after the load, but I agree the default is excellent. 

See also M-x describe-variable: paren-mode. 

	Lars

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Lars Arvestad               Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science
                       Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden