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From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which editor matches parenthesis?
Date: 11 Dec 1995 22:27:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: support@marktwain.com (Support) writes:
: > Is there an editor, preferably for X, that matches (), {},etc.?
: 

Hum, standard Vi should cover it for you.  Put the cursor on the [, (, {,
}, ), ] character you want to find the match of and hit the '%' key.

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)