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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Which editor matches parenthesis? Date: 13 Dec 1995 22:32:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4ank97$mqa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4aflht$a80_001@marktwain.com> <4aijvi$1p0@parody.tecc.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) writes: (matching paren) > In vi, use the '%' key in command mode; in emacs, consult C-h m to > find the correct command for the mode you're in. In Emacs, all matching paren's are being displayed by default, and you can skip back and forth across a matching pair with M-C-b or M-C-f. (I don't think there's a mode that doesn't implement this feature. It even works in the `fundamental' mode i'm currently running to compose this reply.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)