place cursor automatically

place cursor automatically

[Uwe Mayer]

Hi,

When I use Emacs in a Programming Mode that uses "{" and "}" to enclose
blocks I'd like it to complete the closing brace automatically, or at least
jump into the Block when I enter the closing brace, so I want to reduce:

"{" <ret> "}" <up> <end> <ret> <tab>

to

"{" <ret> "}"

How do you do that, or where do you start off? Can that behaviour be
configured or will I habe to go into lisp?

Thanks 
Uwe
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Re: place cursor automatically

[Kai Großjohann]

Uwe Mayer <merkosh@hadiko.de> writes:

> When I use Emacs in a Programming Mode that uses "{" and "}" to enclose
> blocks I'd like it to complete the closing brace automatically, or at least
> jump into the Block when I enter the closing brace, so I want to reduce:
>
> "{" <ret> "}" <up> <end> <ret> <tab>
>
> to
>
> "{" <ret> "}"
>
> How do you do that, or where do you start off? Can that behaviour be
> configured or will I habe to go into lisp?

For parentheses you can type M-(.

There are various packages that do something similar for other
parentheses-like characters.  I think the "Autotype" manual that
comes with Emacs (C-h i d m Autotype RET) explains this.
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