I'm using Spacemacs, and I REALLY love how Dr. Racket background highlights parentheses as you move around.
I'm wondering if I can do this in Emacs instead of this God forsaken "rainbow delimiters" that give me a headache.
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With show-paren-mode you can highlight the whole expression. You need to have the following code in your init file. You can try different style and choose what you like to highlight.
(show-paren-mode t) ;; enable show paren mode
(setq show-paren-style 'expression) ;; highlight whole expression
Refer : http://emacs-fu.blogspot.in/2009/01/balancing-your-parentheses.html
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If spacemacs isn't autocompleting the symbol
'expressiondoes that mean its unavailable? It doesn't seem to be working. I noticed it autocompletesshow-paren-stylebut not the value. – Tallboy Jan 2 '18 at 3:33 -
I got it working, I had to add both lines. Do you know how I can make it change the background color rather than changing the text color? Thanks! – Tallboy Jan 2 '18 at 5:43
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@Tallboy Emacs completion does not consider all interned symbols, only bound ones. Clearly
expressionis an arbitrary, unbound symbol in this case. Ifshow-paren-stylehadn't previously been defined as a variable, you wouldn't be able to complete it either. – Basil Jan 14 '18 at 12:04
I actually want to change the selected answer to myself after doing a lot more research. The given answer above is close, but not quite. It highlights the entire line which I don't want (for example it won't highlight the (circle 10) inside (visalign (circle 10) (circle 20)).
For this, I ended up using this package:
dotspacemacs-additional-packages '(
(highlight-sexp :location (recipe :fetcher github :repo "daimrod/highlight-sexp"))
)
And my config in user-config:
(setq hl-sexp-foreground-color nil)
(setq hl-sexp-background-color "#333")
If that doesn't work for you, I found various sexp highlight packages. They're all slightly different. For example one includes the parens, another doesn't. But for the most part they all do the same thing.
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1FWIW,
show-paren-modewithshow-paren-styleset to'expressionworks fine for me, e.g.(circle 10)is also highlighted. – Basil Jan 14 '18 at 12:08 -
show-paren-style works for me when the cursor is over one of the parens enclosing an expression, this updated answer involving highlight-sexp highlights the whole expression when the cursor is anywhere in the expression. – drhodes May 15 '19 at 13:18
