[ale] vi question

[Pat Regan]

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On 02/24/2010 04:38 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
> I guess a recent update to vi has a new functionality that whenever my 
> cursor falls on a {[( it automatically shows me the matching one.
> 
> I don't know about anyone else, but this has got to be the stupidest 
> thing I've ever seen, particularly when you have a goodly number of such 
> beasts.

I'm a heavy emacs user, so I am a bit ignorant here.  I'd be very
annoyed if my editor DIDN'T point out matching parens and braces.
Especially when there are a large number of them :).

Does vi do something silly like jumping to off screen parens just to
show them to you?

Pat
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