From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a couple of novice questions Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:51:15 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87brqeosrc.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071406920 4088 80.91.224.253 (14 Dec 2003 13:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 14 14:01:58 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVVsk-0002ea-00 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:01:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVWoE-0007xV-T2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:01:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-134-115.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-134-115.arcor-ip.net (145.254.134.115) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071406304 3549508 145.254.134.115 ([87814]) X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6; Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/22.0.0 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wrhHIwrDg8OTbMOIGCzDrMOFwoR6wqTChsOdUlfDoQ== Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119304 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15243 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15243 Peter Lee 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. Oliver -- 24 Frimaire an 212 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!