I am using pretty much the default theme color however, I do want to change the highlighted background color inside the parenthesis.
Is there any specific Face Attributes setting for this specific case?
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(set-face-attribute 'show-paren-match-expression nil :background "yellow")
See Faces in the Elisp manual, in particular Face Attribute Functions, and Matching Parentheses.
If you want to tweak a face, positioning the cursor on a character and hitting C-u C-x = (what-cursor-position) will open a buffer with information about the faces used to display that character (that's how I found out about show-paren-match-expression). If you click on a face that interests you Emacs will open its documentation, saying in which library it's defined, with a link to the library. Click it. Most definitions have a :group keyword, for example :group 'paren-showing-faces. You can invoke customize-group and give it that keyword as argument, i.e. you can type M-x customize-group RET paren-showing-faces RET and you'll be brought to a buffer with a list of options for that topic.
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Thank you. It solved! My face used to display was
sp-pair-overlay-faceso I've added(custom-set-faces '(sp-pair-overlay-face ((t nil))))and there is no highlighted background which what I wanted. Feb 8, 2021 at 10:46 -
@kphex Wait if you just want to disable it ;-) you are better off using just
(setq show-paren-style 'parenthesis), provided you useshow-paren-modefor highlighting matching pairs. See the manual at the Matching Parentheses node. Feb 8, 2021 at 10:59 -
Sorry for the confusion but I wanted to do something with the highlighted color (light green color from my question).
(setq show-paren-style 'parenthesis)brought back the highlight for some reason... Thank you for your alternative suggestion though ;) Feb 8, 2021 at 13:02 -
@kphex No need to apologize, I told you about that setting in case you could be better served by it :-) Feb 8, 2021 at 13:34