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From: Paul Richards <dpr>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which editor matches parenthesis?
Date: 20 Dec 1995 20:59:00 GMT
Organization: Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK
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References: <4aflht$a80_001@marktwain.com> <4agsqi$bqc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <30CD1B83.59E2B600@aldan.star89.galstar.com> <4ank3s$mqa@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>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.
I've never seen this. vi has always matched {}, () and [] pairs for me.
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