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Seebs usenet-nospam at seebs.net
Mon Nov 8 19:31:51 EST 2010


On 2010-11-08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <87oca1b8ba.fsf.mdw at metalzone.distorted.org.uk>, Mark Wooding 
> wrote:
>> Vertical space is a limiting factor on how much code one can see at a
>> time.

> One thing that helps me is that Emacs has commands for quickly jumping 
> between matching brackets.

> Of course, this only works for languages that have brackets.

Yes.  One of the things I find frustrating about the Ruby idiom of
preferring do/end for multiline blocks is that you can't fence-match
them.

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