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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:29:53 -0700
From:      Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: emacs question
Message-ID:  <20000905192953.D437@blitz.canonware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000905190436.E254@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:04:36PM %2B0100
References:  <20000905190436.E254@parish>

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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:04:36PM +0100, 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 the sexp stuff (forward-sexp and backward-sexp), bound to M-C-f
and M-C-b, respectively.

Jason


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