[ESS] Re: [R] R commandline editor question

[Robin Hankin]

Hello Stephen

yes, that's it!  I'd forgotten Show Paren mode was a toggle.

One for the ESS FAQ?


best wishes

Robin

On May 31, 2005, at 09:04 am, Stephen Eglen wrote:

>
> hi Robin et al.
>
> this sequence works for me in Emacs 22 (CVS) - but should work for
> older Emacs, like 21.3.50:
>
> emacs -q
>
> in *scratch* if I type
>
> (]
>
> I get no highlighting.
>
> Then if I do M-x show-paren-mode then (] appears in purple when cursor
> is on either bracket.
>
> () produces cyan highlighting.
>
> Stephen
>
> Robin Hankin writes:
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> I'd forgotten about emacs's ability to do this!   Well I've been
>> fiddling with
>> M-x modify-face for a few minutes now, and set the
>> show-paren-mismatch-face
>> to fg green and  bg purple (emacs 21.3.50).
>>
>> When I type "[(]"  I get a warning "mismatched parentheses" but no
>> highlighting;
>> I was expecting the mismatching round and square brackets to be
>> green/purple.
>> What am I doing wrong here?  What have I forgotten?
>>
>> rksh
>>
>>
>> On May 27, 2005, at 07:18 pm, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
>>
>>> If you are running R in the *R* buffer inside emacs, then you
>>> automatically
>>> have highlighting of mismatched parentheses and brackets.
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
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