From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 5 15:31:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC76A37B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.155]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000905223130.EBTK312.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:31:30 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA06558; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:31:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:31:27 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs question Message-ID: <20000905233127.J254@parish> References: <20000905190436.E254@parish> <39B55BFA.791386E@mail.ptd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39B55BFA.791386E@mail.ptd.net>; from tms2@mail.ptd.net on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:47:54PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:47:54PM -0400, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > 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. Thanks. -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message