Re: command help : matching braces

[Fernando Dobladez]

It shouldn't be necessary. Actually the special \s( and \s) in a regular 
expresion matches any opening/closing "parenthesis" (generic meaning) 
character. This meaning depends on the current mode. From the elisp 
manual: "In English text, and in C code, the parenthesis pairs are 
`()',     `[]', and `{}'.  In Emacs Lisp, the delimiters for lists and 
vectors (`()' and `[]') are classified as parenthesis characters."

Fernando.


Matthew O. Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I added curly brace matching as well.
> Thanks.
>
> (defun match-paren (arg)
>  "Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis, otherwise insert %.
> (Like in VI editor).  Thanks Fernando Dobladez <ferd@fuego.com>"
>  (interactive "p")
>  (cond
>   ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
>   ((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
>   ((looking-at "\\s\{") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
>   ((looking-at "\\s\}") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
>   (t (self-insert-command (or arg 1)))))
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fernando Dobladez" <ferd@fuego.com>
> To: "Ambardekar, Shailesh" <Shailesh.Ambardekar@corp.vizzavi.net>
> Cc: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: command help : matching braces
>
>
> > If you miss VI's % too much, you'd probably like to include the
> > following in your .emacs:
> >
> > (defun match-paren (arg)
> >  "Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis, otherwise insert %.
> > (Like in VI editor)"
> >  (interactive "p")
> >  (cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
> >    ((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
> >    (t (self-insert-command (or arg 1)))))
> >
> > (global-set-key "%"                  'match-paren)
> >
> >
> > That will make the '%' go to the matching brace if the cursor is on a
> > brace, and it will insert "%" otherwise.
> >
> > Fernando.
> >
> >
> > Ambardekar, Shailesh wrote:
> >
> > > In gnu emacs 20.3.1 under Sun Solaris 2.6,
> > > what is the emacs command for going to the matching brace ?
> > > ( looking for emacs equivalent of % vi command ).
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Shailesh
> >
> >
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