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From: Fernando Dobladez <ferd@fuego.com>
Cc: "'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: command help : matching braces
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:07:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CB1CE5F.9020604@fuego.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 578F3C8F6DD3D411850600508BF320CAD014D6@aries-exch1.uk.eu.corp.vizzavi.net

If you miss VI's % too much, you'd probably like to include the 
following in your .emacs:

(defun match-paren (arg)
  "Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis, otherwise insert %. 
(Like in VI editor)"
  (interactive "p")
  (cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
    ((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
    (t (self-insert-command (or arg 1)))))

(global-set-key "%"                  'match-paren)


That will make the '%' go to the matching brace if the cursor is on a 
brace, and it will insert "%" otherwise.

Fernando.


Ambardekar, Shailesh wrote:

>In gnu emacs 20.3.1 under Sun Solaris 2.6,
>what is the emacs command for going to the matching brace ?
>( looking for emacs equivalent of % vi command ).
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Shailesh
>
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-08 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-04 16:15 command help : matching braces Ambardekar, Shailesh
2002-04-04 18:17 ` Chuck Siska
2002-04-05  5:45 ` Gurucharan
2002-04-08 17:07 ` Fernando Dobladez [this message]
2002-04-08 17:21   ` Matthew O. Smith
2002-04-08 19:07     ` Fernando Dobladez

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