The example I provided is independent of the "Paren match" option.  It is a
completely different mode.  You can have either/neither/both modes enabled.

The example worked for me on
Windows XP, Emacs 22.2
Ubuntu, Emacs 22.1

I can't test Xemacs.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ron Burns <rrburns@cox.net> wrote:

> Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>
> Options Pulldown Menu and check the "Pren Match Highlighting" box
>
>  Chris Evans wrote:
>>
>>> Kevin W sent the following  at 24/04/2009 01:20:
>>>
>>>> I have been using show-paren-mode to highlight matching parentheses, but
>>>> wished that I could highlight more than one par of matching parentheses
>>>> at a
>>>> time.  (Similar to the way Excel highlights parentheses when editing
>>>> formulas).
>>>>
>>>> I'm excited to report that I have discovered a way to do this and offer
>>>> the
>>>> following bit from my .emacs file for your enjoyment.
>>>>
>>>> ; Download this into your emacs lisp directory
>>>> ;
>>>> http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-parentheses/highlight-parentheses.el
>>>> (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)
>>>>
>>>> I think you can add more colors to the list if needed.  hl-paren-colors
>>>> can
>>>> also be set via customization groups if you want.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin Wright
>>>>
>>>
>>> I not infrequently mess up with parentheses so this sounded very good to
>>> me too, though I wasn't entirely sure what Excel had that was being
>>> emulated. I had a quick play with Excel and still wasn't that sure.
>>>
>>> However, I think I have installed highlight-parentheses.el correctly and
>>> put those lines (above) where they should be but I'm not seeing anything
>>> different in ESS.
>>>
>>> Could it be that I'm using XEmacs (21.4.21 on Windoze XP sp3)?  I have
>>> downloaded highlight-parentheses.el at:
>>>    D:\XEmacs\site-packages\lisp\highlight-parentheses.el
>>> and put those lines above in
>>>    C:\Documents and Settings\admin\.xemacs\init.el
>>> which are the appropriate places in XEmacs in my set up I think.
>>>
>>> However, I don't see any change as I say.
>>>
>>> Several questions for people, including, and great thanks to, Kevin, but
>>> also perhaps to fellow XEmacs users.
>>>
>>> 1) what should I see that would indicate that things are working (I'll
>>> put my glasses on!)?
>>> 2) what could I do that would confirm that XEmacs has loaded those lines
>>> correctly, invoking highlight-parentheses.el?
>>>
>>> TIA and continued thanks to everyone who makes ESS so wonderful.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I installed the new .el file in /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/ess and added
>> the above lines to .emacs, then restarted Emacs22.  I see gold highlighting,
>> but I don't see usage of any of the other colors listed.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>
>
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