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From: lat@druil.UUCP (TepperL)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: More (ad nauseum) on removing punctuation in programming languages
Message-ID: <207@druil.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 10:47:30 EST
Article-I.D.: druil.207
Posted: Fri Nov  7 10:47:30 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Nov-86 05:31:02 EST
References: <21836@rochester.ARPA> <2642@hammer.TEK.COM> <694@looking.UUCP> <1303@ttrdc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Denver, Co
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Summary: On finding curly braces with vi...

In article <1303@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP writes:
> Well, I went to the bottom of the code, put the cursor on the curly brace
> there, and hit '%' again.  It matched with the second curly brace in from
> the top.  I start moving in, matching pair against pair, for several iter-
> ations.  Then '%' put me right in the middle of a printf statement:
> 
> 	(void) printf("junkjunkjunk{trashtrashtrash\n");
>                                    ^
>                                    |-- see the "hidden" curly brace?
> 
> Oh, well... *klunk*

There's any easy way around this.  I've even used it before:

 	(void) printf("junkjunkjunk{trashtrashtrash\n");
	/* This } matches the one in the printf above.  Vi is happy. */
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Larry Tepper	    {ihnp4 | allegra}!drutx!druil!lat	+1-303-538-1759