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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: 21 Dec 1995 23:55:59 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Paul Richards <dpr> writes:
               ^^^

Oooh, Paul, what's up with your newsreader?

> >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.

I meant showing it ``on the fly'', not by explicit keystrokes.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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