parenthesis-matching-style

Arguments: cg-configuration

Returns the value of the parenthesis-matching-style property of cg-configuration. The current configuration is the value of (configuration *system*) (see configuration and *system*).

This value determines what sort of mark is drawn in a lisp-edit-pane window to indicate the parenthesis or double-quote character that matches the character at the text cursor, to denote the "other end" of a list or literal string. This applies to Common Ggraphics applications as well as to the IDE's editors and listeners.

(setf parenthesis-matching-style) may be called to set the value, and in the IDE the option also appears on the editor tab of the dialog displayed by the Tools | Options menu command. See also parenthesis-matching-color, parentheses-matched, and without-parenthesis-matching.

The choices are:

• :color-bar: display a vertical bar ( | ) in parenthesis-matching-color next to the matching parenthesis.
• :color-outline: enclose the matching parenthesis in a box outline in parenthesis-matching-color.
• :color-block: enclose the matching parenthesis in a filled box in parenthesis-matching-color (the matching parenthesis shows through the box).
• :inverted-block: enclose the matching parenthesis in a filled box that inverts the foreground and background colors.
• :parenthesis-color: display the matching parenthesis itself in parenthesis-matching-color.
• :off: no visual parenthesis matching.

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Created 2009.10.15.