From: Jerome Mrozak <go...@mcs.net>
Subject: [Q]:  Key to jump between braces? {}
Date: 1998/09/08
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I'm a newbie to emacs, and I'm looking for a key I find very convenient
in my DOS-based editors and also in vi.  When the cursor is on a
parenthesis or a brace, if I press "the key", the cursor jumps to the
matching parenthesis or brace.  I can jump back and forth to assure
myself that I've the correct block.

This isn't the same as "flashing" when I complete a block.  I want to go
to pre-existing text and discover its matching braces.

I suppose I could write it (after all, its only a lisp macro :) but
that's a lot of work for a newbie.  I'm afraid it might even keep me in
vi-land (chicken, I know, but I like the easy way out now and then).

Thanks,
Jerome.
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Jerome Mrozak
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