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  1. Path: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
  2. From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.c++.leda,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.basic.visual.3rdparty,alt.computer.workshop.live,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.clearing.technology,alt.chinese.computing,news.newusers.questions
  4. Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LANGUAGE
  5. Date: 9 Apr 1996 19:50:54 -0700
  6. Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
  7. Message-ID: <4kf7meINN5k0@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
  8. References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960329010021.13209A-100000@harvey> <4k4pl2$pea@host1.einstein.com.ar> <316A6189.4287@wight.hursley.ibm.com> <4kebqq$4qs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
  10.  
  11. In article <4kebqq$4qs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>,
  12. Will Morse <will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
  13. >I like to use {/} because vi, among others, lets me find the matching
  14. >}/{ using the % key.
  15.  
  16. It's not impossible to match begin/end in the same way. The vi editor I use,
  17. Vim, matches #ifdef/#else/#endif directives by jumping among the three.
  18.  
  19. Vi matches { } because it was designed by a C/UNIX programmer.
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