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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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