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Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> How do you show matching parentheses, braces, square brackets in
> emacs (the equivalent of ``%'' in vi(1))?
> 
> The cursor jumps to the matching opening brace etc. when you add a
> closing brace, but that's not much use when you are cut 'n' pasting
> and end up with mis-matches.

Look at paren-mode.


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