Re: jump between if-fi

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> I hope this isn't one of those things that is just plain obvious to
> lookup in emacs but I'm striking out with M-x apropos
>
> How can I make emacs do something similar with if-fi constructs as it
> does with parens?
>
> Even better I'd like the kind of behaviour one can get in vim with
> parens, where not only does the syntax coloring show the other paren
> but you can jump there with a Ctrl-%

Maybe you mean %, not C-%?

You can in Emacs too, using Viper. But see

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViKeys
  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViAndEmacs

> I know emacs can do that as well but not as easily.  But anyway, I use
> emacs more and would like to turn its powers used in paren recognition
> against the `if fi', `while done', `for done'... etc. one uses in
> shell scripting.