Re: marrying braket for ?: operator

[Baloff]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Robert Marshall <spam@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> wrote on Thu, 28 Jul
> 2005 21:06:20 +0100:
> 
> > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> 
> >> Baloff <washdc@wash.edu> wrote on 28 Jul 2005 15:20:51 +1000:
> >>> Hello
> 
> >>> when I move my pointer to a braket, it highlight its marrying
> >>> braket.  but how can I get it to do the same with the ternary
> >>> if-else operator (?:) I hope this is a good group for this question
> >>> otherwise please point me.
> 
> >> It's exactly the right group!
> 
> >> There is no command which jumps from a ? to it's : or vice versa.
> >> Maybe there should be one.  Maybe somebody, somewhere, has
> >> implemented one, and will jump in here with a URL pointing to the
> >> source code.
> 
> >> The thing is, though, how useful would this command be?  Programmers
> >> tend not to nest these conditional expressions very much.  The
> >> command would have to bound to a key sequence, something like C-c :
> >> (that's "control-c colon").  By the time you've typed that in, you
> >> could just as well have found the colon by interactive search by
> >> typing C-s :.
> 
> 
> > And it's probably not straightforward (for either case), you might have
> 
> >  (x > 4) ? weeble::kerplunk(funky::gibbon ? whoop : holler()) : 
> > foible::gibber::eugh();
> 
> Believe me, compared with some of the stuff that's already in CC Mode,
> that's nothing.  ;-)
> 
> > Robert
> > -- 
> > La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau
> 
> -- 
> Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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thanks

now that you know my .emacs and the lot
how can I get
enum colors { to go to a new line and indent like when I type say
main(){ or for(...) {

thanks