+11  A: 

I think you are looking for something like mwe-color-box.el

dsm  2008-09-26 08:55:43
+1  A: 

If you need this to help editing, then I suggest turning on coloring the innermost sexp which contains the cursor with a different background color. At least I'm used to this and it is sufficient.

Levente Mészáros  2008-09-26 13:13:06
Can you give an example of how to turn that feature on?
Alex B  2008-09-26 15:34:53
+1  A: 

http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-parentheses/ lets you highlight just the parentheses.

D-Coder  2009-07-08 18:07:21

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