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Help displaying matching delimiters:

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From: T. V. Raman
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1991 16:58
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Hi!

I use emacs on a talking terminal and therefore need to customise it
to some extent.  At present I have the following problem.

When I type a closing brace, or other closing delimiters,  I am not
able to tell what the matching opening delimiter is.  When the
matching delimiter is off the screen,  I have no problem,  as emacs
displays  a line in the minibuffer showing what the matching delimiter
is.  

Is there some wya I can have emacs do this even when the matching
delimiter is on the screen?

At present I am using a simple workaround by trying to remember to
move the current line to the top of the screen and then typing the
closing delimiter.  This works but I still have problems when I am
trying to match parenthesis appearing on the same line.

Thanks for the help.

--Raman
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Subject: Help displaying matching delimiters:
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