Re: a couple of novice questions

[Klaus Berndl]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Oliver Scholz wrote:



>  Peter Lee <pete_lee@swbell.net> writes:
>  
> >>>>> Pascal Bourguignon writes:
> >
> >     >> Secondly, how does one find a matching opening brace, paren,
> >     >> etc?
> >
> >     Pascal> It's automatic. When you close a paren, the cursor moves
> >     Pascal> to the matching opening paren.  Or, if you double-click on
> >     Pascal> one paren, it selects all its contents and the matching
> >     Pascal> paren too. Or if you use backward-sexp or forward-sexp
> >     Pascal> (C-c , or C-c .), it moves over matching paren.
> >  
> > I use C-M-p (backward-list) and C-M-n (forward-list).
>  [...]
>  
>  I use M-x show-paren-mode.  This highlights the paren at point and
>  its opening/closing counterpart, if any.

Or you can use the more sophisticated mic-paren.el which you can download from
http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html ....

Klaus

>  
>      Oliver

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