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Re: jump between if-fi
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Re: jump between if-fi |
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Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:29:16 -0600 |
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"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> 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-%?
Yes I did.
> 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
>
Thanks for those ... I knew some it but found some more.
But no, I don't want to try to turn emacs into vi so much as turn
emacs power loose on if-fi while-done etc constructs.
>> 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.
That was my my main question and I didn't notice anything on those
sites about that... I hope I just missed it.
So still wondering how to get paren type actions to work on if-fi type
shell constructs.