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Subject: Re: goto matching Paren From: Knut Forkalsrud <knut@forkalsrud.org> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:17:39 GMT yever@my-deja.com writes: > Emacs can hightlight the matching paren. But when the > matching paren is not on the screen, How can I go to tha > matching paren directly? The highlight thing just > doesn't work very well. It doesn't tell me where the > matching paren is. Thanks. Try M-C-n (forward-list) and M-C-p (backward-list) Something similar is M-C-f (forward-sexp) and M-C-b (backward-sexp). It is all described in the manual, possibly also the tutorial. -Knut