What is the command to match brackets in Emacs?

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Chris Huang-Leaver picture Chris Huang-Leaver · Nov 4, 2008 · Viewed 39.4k times · Source

What is the command to match brackets in Emacs (the equivalent of the % command in Vim)?

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Alexander Kojevnikov picture Alexander Kojevnikov · Nov 4, 2008

See show-paren-mode as described in 5.27 How do I show which parenthesis matches the one I'm looking at?

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