Re: Parens Matching

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:12:28 -0700, danb wrote:

On Mar 30, 10:51 am, dstein64 <DStei...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
when a function is very long, I can not see what open parenthesis
corresponds to the closed parenthesis I just typed.

Doesn't it display "Matches (foo ..." at the bottom of the screen? I
don't know if there's a better way, but I usually just delete the right
paren and then retype it.

Yeah, that's been a feature of GNU emacs for a while now. I'm not sure if
xemacs does the same, though.

You can also try using C-M-f and C-M-b to move forward and backwards over
Lisp forms, rather than deleting the last parenthesis (in fact, this will
work in any major-mode, unless it rebinds the keys).

Rudy
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