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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
>
>