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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 22:32:07 GMT
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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

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