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From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: emacs question
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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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