Mercurial > emacs

comparison man/programs.texi @ 34122:c42bb7d4437b

Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision number or hash, or revset expression.
Don't tell that show-paren only works on X. Explain how to customize it. Add an index entry.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:48:44 +0000
parents b00126124976
children eb9ce988e870
comparison
equal deleted inserted replaced
34121:8ac4f972b03f 34122:c42bb7d4437b
1184 the match is not found in that far, scanning stops, and nothing is 1184 the match is not found in that far, scanning stops, and nothing is
1185 displayed. This is to prevent scanning for the matching delimiter from 1185 displayed. This is to prevent scanning for the matching delimiter from
1186 wasting lots of time when there is no match. The default is 12,000. 1186 wasting lots of time when there is no match. The default is 12,000.
1187 1187
1188 @cindex Show Paren mode 1188 @cindex Show Paren mode
1189 @cindex highlighting matching parentheses
1189 @findex show-paren-mode 1190 @findex show-paren-mode
1190 When using X Windows, you can request a more powerful alternative kind 1191 You can also request a more powerful alternative kind of automatic
1191 of automatic parenthesis matching by enabling Show Paren mode. This 1192 parenthesis matching by enabling Show Paren mode. This mode turns off
1192 mode turns off the usual kind of matching parenthesis display and 1193 the usual kind of matching parenthesis display and instead uses
1193 instead uses highlighting to show what matches. Whenever point is after 1194 highlighting to show what matches. Whenever point is after a close
1194 a close parenthesis, the close parenthesis and its matching open 1195 parenthesis, the close parenthesis and its matching open parenthesis are
1195 parenthesis are both highlighted; otherwise, if point is before an open 1196 both highlighted; otherwise, if point is before an open parenthesis, the
1196 parenthesis, the matching close parenthesis is highlighted. (There is 1197 matching close parenthesis is highlighted. (There is no need to
1197 no need to highlight the open parenthesis after point because the cursor 1198 highlight the open parenthesis after point because the cursor appears on
1198 appears on top of that character.) Use the command @kbd{M-x 1199 top of that character.) Use the command @kbd{M-x show-paren-mode} to
1199 show-paren-mode} to enable or disable this mode. 1200 enable or disable this mode.
1201
1202 By default, @code{show-paren-mode} uses colors to highlight the
1203 parentheses. However, if your display doesn't support colors, you can
1204 customize the faces @code{show-paren-match-face} and
1205 @code{show-paren-mismatch-face} to use other attributes, such as bold or
1206 underline. @xref{Face Customization}.
1200 1207
1201 @node Comments 1208 @node Comments
1202 @section Manipulating Comments 1209 @section Manipulating Comments
1203 @cindex comments 1210 @cindex comments
1204 1211