Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/6301: vi bug Message-ID: <199804150410.VAA11138@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/6301; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@hub.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/6301: vi bug
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:03:48 PDT
John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> wrote:
> > #define MASK(len) ((0xffffffff>>(32-(len)))<<(32-(len)))
> ab c d dcb e f fea
>
> > If i position the cursor on the first ``<'' on the above
>
> do you mean `('? because vi doesn't do matching of angle braces...
Yes it does; that's his problem. Greg wants the behavior that's
described in the documentation:
The cursor moves to the parenthesis or curly brace which
.i matches
the parenthesis or curly brace found at the current cursor position
or which is the closest one to the right of the cursor on the line.
Note the last phrase - when Greg has his cursor on the first <, he wants
it to match on the first paren you labelled "e", since that is the closest
one to the right of the cursor on the line. Instead, since vi learned how
to match <>'s, it beeps since there's no match.
Since matching <>'s is useful when writing HTML but not when programming,
Greg suggested (in a later message) a "set" option to enable <> matching;
I think I agree.
Bill
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