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From: "Faried Nawaz" <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which editor matches parenthesis?
Date: 16 Dec 1995 21:11:29 -0800
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In article <4aflht$a80_001@marktwain.com> support@marktwain.com (Support) writes:
$ Is there an editor, preferably for X, that matches (), {},etc.?
vi does it -- put
set showmatch
in your .exrc.
there is a port of xvile, i think -- an X-based vi clone.
emacs/xemacs does it, and uses X.
aXe -- and xcoral, probably -- also do it; they use X.
faried.