What parens? All I see is the program. (the Clojure color part of http://briancarper.net/blog/492/emacs-clojure-colors in one convenient place. Just dimming the parens: http://www.davep.org/emacs/parenface.el --- from: http://briancarper.net/blog/492/emac

what-parens-all-I-see-is-the-program.el

(defun lisp-enable-paredit-hook () (paredit-mode 1))
(add-hook 'clojure-mode-hook 'lisp-enable-paredit-hook)

(defmacro defclojureface (name color desc &optional others)
  `(defface ,name '((((class color)) (:foreground ,color ,@others))) ,desc :group 'faces))

(defclojureface clojure-parens       "DimGrey"   "Clojure parens")
(defclojureface clojure-braces       "#49b2c7"   "Clojure braces")
(defclojureface clojure-brackets     "SteelBlue" "Clojure brackets")
(defclojureface clojure-keyword      "khaki"     "Clojure keywords")
(defclojureface clojure-namespace    "#c476f1"   "Clojure namespace")
(defclojureface clojure-java-call    "#4bcf68"   "Clojure Java calls")
(defclojureface clojure-special      "#b8bb00"   "Clojure special")
(defclojureface clojure-double-quote "#b8bb00"   "Clojure special" (:background "unspecified"))

(defun tweak-clojure-syntax ()
  (mapcar (lambda (x) (font-lock-add-keywords nil x))
          '((("#?['`]*(\\|)"       . 'clojure-parens))
            (("#?\\^?{\\|}"        . 'clojure-brackets))
            (("\\[\\|\\]"          . 'clojure-braces))
            ((":\\w+"              . 'clojure-keyword))
            (("#?\""               0 'clojure-double-quote prepend))
            (("nil\\|true\\|false\\|%[1-9]?" . 'clojure-special))
            (("(\\(\\.[^ \n)]*\\|[^ \n)]+\\.\\|new\\)\\([ )\n]\\|$\\)" 1 'clojure-java-call))
            )))

(add-hook 'clojure-mode-hook 'tweak-clojure-syntax)

(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(slime-highlight-edits-face ((((class color) (background dark)) (:background "#202020")))))