From: George Ogata <g_ogata@...>
Date: 2005-12-17T22:07:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Emacs mode question: backward-sexp & forward-sexp for begin..end

David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a Ruby Emacs mode where I can do M-C-b (backward-sexp) and
> M-C-f (forward-sexp) for "begin".."end" too [*], and not just for
> "("..")", "{".."}", etc? I'd like to use "begin".."end" more to
> delimit multiline blocks because it seems neater/creates less noise,
> but many times I end up using "{".."}" for the above sole reason. I
> find easy jumping like this more useful than folding (which Emacs
> doesn't do particularly well, anyway).
>
> [*] If it can additionally do "if".."elsif".."else".."end",
> "def".."end", etc. too then it would be infinitely more wonderful.
>
> Regards,
> dave

Hi David,

Does C-M-n / C-M-p do what you want?

Cheers,
George.