[ESS] highlight parenthesis --- problems with .emacs in emacs23

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 19:06, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
>
>> Hola!
>>
>> I am now using emacs23 from ubuntu 9.10 (and ess 5.5, R 2-10.0)
>>
>> The following code
>> Highlight parenthesis stuff:
>>   (require 'highlight-parentheses)
>> (setq hl-paren-colors '("gold" "IndianRed" "cyan" "green" "orange"
>>  "magenta"))
>>  (defun hpm-on ()
>>  (highlight-parentheses-mode t))
>> (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook 'hpm-on)
>> (add-hook 'inferior-ess-mode-hook 'hpm-on)
>> (add-hook 'tex-mode-hook 'hpm-on)
>> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'hpm-on)
>> in my .emacs file (which I have stolen from this list ...)
>> worked in emacs22, but now gives the following error under staurtup:
>>
>> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
>> `/home/kjetil/.emacs':
>>
>> Symbol's value as variable is void: Highlight
>>
>> ???
>>
>> Kjetil
>
>
>
> The first thing that I would check is that you have highlight-parentheses.el
> in your emacs 23 lisp directory.

Thanks. It is there! So that is not the problem.


>
> Depending upon how you installed emacs 23, that file (and others) may not be
> installed or are not in a location that emacs 23 knows about.
>
> The file is not part of the Emacs cvs and is not typically part of Emacs 23
> bundles that I have seen for most platforms. I don't use Ubuntu and don't
> know if it has been included in emacs related .deb files. It was not part of
> the Fedora emacs rpms as I recall.
>
> You may have to download that file separately
> (http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-parentheses/) and use:
>
>  (load "/PATH.TO/highlight-parentheses")
>
> rather than require.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>



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