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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Angle brackets matching
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:47:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85bqqd6fco.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pco3bbpeuog.fsf@shuttle.math.ntnu.no

Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:

> + Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>:
>
> | Emacs has nice functionality for paren matching. Ie. if I put the
> | cursor outside a paren, it highlights both that paren and the matching
> | paren. However, it does not do the same for angle brackets. This would
> | be very useful, particularly when writing C++ templates. :-)
>
> These might be useful, at least if you use paren-mode:
>
>     (modify-syntax-entry ?< "(>")
>     (modify-syntax-entry ?> ")<")

I am not sure.  C++ syntax is such a mess.  For example, you can write
things like

typedef xxx = wurks::typ<a,sizeof(zap)<<2>4>;

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-21 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-21 18:14 Angle brackets matching Faheem Mitha
2006-08-21 19:49 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2006-08-21 19:47   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-08-21 20:16   ` Faheem Mitha

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