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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which editor matches parenthesis?
Date: 23 Dec 1995 12:53:22 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) writes:

> showmatch seems to be ignored if the match is more than ~20 lines away,
> which actually makes some sense since you would have to redraw the full
> screen twice just to show the match.

Emacs solves this by showing the matching expression in the status line.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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