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From: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow)
Subject: Re: Which editor matches parenthesis?
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 22:11:42 GMT
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Paul Richards (dpr) wrote:
: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
: >vi has problems showing you a matching paren when it's ``far away'',
: I've never seen this. vi has always matched {}, () and [] pairs for me.
showmatch seems to be ignored if the match is more than ~20 lines away,
which actually makes some sense since you would have to redraw the full
screen twice just to show the match. Using % matches them fine no matter
what the distance.
Dan
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Dan Busarow
DPC Systems
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