From: reader@newsguy.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: jump between if-fi
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:29:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq87bcn7.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4778285B.8020204@gmail.com
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> reader@newsguy.com wrote:
>> I hope this isn't one of those things that is just plain obvious to
>> lookup in emacs but I'm striking out with M-x apropos
>>
>> How can I make emacs do something similar with if-fi constructs as it
>> does with parens?
>>
>> Even better I'd like the kind of behaviour one can get in vim with
>> parens, where not only does the syntax coloring show the other paren
>> but you can jump there with a Ctrl-%
>
> Maybe you mean %, not C-%?
Yes I did.
> You can in Emacs too, using Viper. But see
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViKeys
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViAndEmacs
>
Thanks for those ... I knew some it but found some more.
But no, I don't want to try to turn emacs into vi so much as turn
emacs power loose on if-fi while-done etc constructs.
>> I know emacs can do that as well but not as easily. But anyway, I use
>> emacs more and would like to turn its powers used in paren recognition
>> against the `if fi', `while done', `for done'... etc. one uses in
>> shell scripting.
That was my my main question and I didn't notice anything on those
sites about that... I hope I just missed it.
So still wondering how to get paren type actions to work on if-fi type
shell constructs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-31 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-30 23:02 jump between if-fi reader
2007-12-30 23:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-31 6:29 ` reader [this message]
2007-12-31 8:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-12-31 14:41 ` reader
2008-01-01 15:47 ` reader
[not found] ` <mailman.5533.1199082573.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-09 5:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-31 16:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-01 2:29 ` reader
2008-01-01 14:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-01 15:39 ` reader
2008-01-01 15:53 ` Torturedly threaded .emacs portability. [Was: jump between if-fi] Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-01 15:53 ` reader
2008-01-02 5:00 ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-05 18:33 ` jump between if-fi reader
2008-01-09 9:43 ` Arnaldo Mandel
[not found] <mailman.5524.1199055779.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-01 18:12 ` Xah Lee
2008-01-01 19:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
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