* Adam [2009-02-05 11:47+0100] writes:
Hi, I'm setting up emacs/slime for the first time and I'm having some difficulties getting automatic bracket matching to work. I watched Marco Baringer's lisp video and I've got most of the useful features working like tab auto-completion and hyperspec lookup for example, but brackets don't seem to matched automatically like they were in Marco's video. For example whenever an opening bracket was typed a closing bracket would be inserted after the cursor, but this doesn't happen in my emacs/slime configuration.
Paren matching is a standard Emacs feature not something specific to Slime. You can enable it with something like (show-paren-mode t) in your .emacs. Depending on the Emacs version, there is also an item the "Options" menu. `M-x customize-option show-paren-mode' will also work. In Emcas 23 it's enable by default.
There is also a slightly different feature called "paren blinking" which moves the cursor temporarily back to the opening paren when the closing ) is inserted. That's useful if you work on a black&white terminal.
Helmut.