Re: show-paren-mode / blink-matching-paren

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> What I'm after is the following:
> whenever I'm curious about what the matching paren is of some closing
> paren, I can move point to after the closing paren, and it will show
> me, for a second or so.

Call `blink-matching-open' from an idle timer.

> q2. A basic question: In my .emacs I'd like to turn on
> e.g. show-paren-mode in e.g. emacs-lisp mode only. How do I do that?
> Adding (show-paren-mode t) to my personal emacs-lisp mode hook turns
> it on in all buffers, right?

`show-paren-mode' is a global mode, so there is no obvious way.

Looking at the implementation, the following should work, though:

(show-paren-mode t)
(setq show-paren-mode nil)

And in the elisp hook:
(set (make-local-variable 'show-paren-mode) t)


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher