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I would like to enable show-paren-mode in my configuration file init.el, which is very convenient for debugging. As it is a minor mode as I've understood, I don't know how to proceed...Thank you very much!

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I think (show-paren-mode 1) should do the job.

You can also try highlight-parentheses-mode if you want to highlight the cursor's current scope.

This is my config:

(use-package highlight-parentheses :ensure t :pin melpa :config (setq hl-paren-background-colors '("orangered4")) (setq hl-paren-colors '("black")))

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  • I love use-package but I've never used :pin melpa before. Just curious, what does it do ? – Chakravarthy Raghunandan Sep 12 '16 at 16:17
  • it determines the repository you want to use – bertfred Sep 12 '16 at 16:22
  • isn't that redundant most of the times? I get 90% of the packages from melpa – Chakravarthy Raghunandan Sep 12 '16 at 16:25
  • yes it is...in most cases – bertfred Sep 12 '16 at 16:29
  • You might find :pin useful depending on the sort priority of your package repos. For example, you might want to pick up packages from melpa-stable where possible, so you give that higher priority. Then you might want to pin a specific package to melpa because you always want the latest version. – glucas Sep 13 '16 at 14:17

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