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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which editor matches parenthesis?
Date: 13 Dec 1995 22:29:16 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com> writes:
> support@marktwain.com (Support) writes:
> > Is there an editor, preferably for X, that matches (), {},etc.?
>
> vi! (forever!)
vi has problems showing you a matching paren when it's ``far away'',
and at least nvi doesn't seem to show a matching bracket at all.
Emacs shows all of them (``far away'' parens are being displayed by
the context of the opening instance in the status line).
--
cheers, J"org
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