Angle brackets matching

Angle brackets matching

[Faheem Mitha]

Hi everyone,

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. :-)

I was wondering if anyone knew how to get this working with the
version of emacs in Debian Sarge, ie. 21.4a-1.

Thanks.
                                                         Faheem.

Re: Angle brackets matching

[David Kastrup]

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

Re: Angle brackets matching

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ 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 ?> ")<")

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell

Re: Angle brackets matching

[Faheem Mitha]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:49:03 +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen
<hanche@math.ntnu.no> wrote:

> + 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 ?> ")<")

Hi,

Thanks for replying.

This does not seem to do anything, as far as I can see.

I have the following lines in my .emacs which involve use of the word paren.

 '(show-paren-mode t nil (paren))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(show-paren-match-face ((((class color)) 
(:foreground "turquoise" :weight bold))))
 '(show-paren-mismatch-face ((((class color)) 
(:foreground "red" :weight bold)))))

Do I need to add something else?

                                                                         Faheem.