On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28 Jul 2005 15:20:51 +1000: >> Hello > >> when I move my pointer to a braket, it highlight its marrying >> braket. but how can I get it to do the same with the ternary >> if-else operator (?:) I hope this is a good group for this question >> otherwise please point me. > > It's exactly the right group! > > There is no command which jumps from a ? to it's : or vice versa. > Maybe there should be one. Maybe somebody, somewhere, has > implemented one, and will jump in here with a URL pointing to the > source code. > > The thing is, though, how useful would this command be? Programmers > tend not to nest these conditional expressions very much. The > command would have to bound to a key sequence, something like C-c : > (that's "control-c colon"). By the time you've typed that in, you > could just as well have found the colon by interactive search by > typing C-s :. >
And it's probably not straightforward (for either case), you might have (x > 4) ? weeble::kerplunk(funky::gibbon ? whoop : holler()) : foible::gibber::eugh(); Robert -- La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
