Hi,
What is the command to match brackets in Emacs (the equivalent of the '%' command in vim)?
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Chris Huang-Leaver
2008-11-04 11:21:50
No worries mate :)
Alexander Kojevnikov
2008-11-04 11:24:31
+3
A:
C-M-f, or M-x forward-sexp, goes forward to the closing brace, or to the opening brace in the next set of braces. C-M-b, or M-x backward-sexp, goes backward to the opening brace, or to the closing brace in the next set of braces. These commands will work for parentheses, square brackets, curly braces, angle brackets, etc., and can be customized to recognize other delimiters.
Chris Conway
2008-11-04 12:22:54
A:
There is also a 'show-paren-mode'. For navigation, I think it's better C-M-nand C-M-n
wallyqs
2008-11-09 06:20:41
Yes, but sometimes the matching paren isn't currently on the screen. This is when forward/backward-sexp really come in handy.
Chris Conway
2008-11-14 06:12:36