From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Marshall Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: marrying braket for ?: operator Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:06:20 +0100 Organization: The first against the wall Message-ID: References: <878xzr33rg.fsf@wash.edu> Reply-To: robert$spam0104$@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122581923 9716 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2005 20:18:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 22:18:33 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyEp7-0002OR-Ey for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:17:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyEra-0002Dr-50 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:20:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net OyujmhQhi4kEIBZcMZ6OTAVoZvGnCjYISO1NgEIi5u2elUrZ4= X-Orig-Path: chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk!not-for-mail X-Home-Page: http://rmstar.blogspot.com/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HacdBY/jUpCADWCLu1LnD5YAgk0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132735 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28258 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28258 On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Baloff wrote on 28 Jul 2005 15:20:51 +1000: >> Hello > >> when I move my pointer to a braket, it highlight its marrying >> braket. but how can I get it to do the same with the ternary >> if-else operator (?:) I hope this is a good group for this question >> otherwise please point me. > > It's exactly the right group! > > There is no command which jumps from a ? to it's : or vice versa. > Maybe there should be one. Maybe somebody, somewhere, has > implemented one, and will jump in here with a URL pointing to the > source code. > > The thing is, though, how useful would this command be? Programmers > tend not to nest these conditional expressions very much. The > command would have to bound to a key sequence, something like C-c : > (that's "control-c colon"). By the time you've typed that in, you > could just as well have found the colon by interactive search by > typing C-s :. > And it's probably not straightforward (for either case), you might have (x > 4) ? weeble::kerplunk(funky::gibbon ? whoop : holler()) : foible::gibber::eugh(); Robert -- La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau