Re: jumping to peer parenthesis/brace

[Jay Belanger]

Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
...
> Somewhere I picked `match-paren': it allows you to jump to and fro
> without changing the key:
>
> (defun match-paren (arg)
>   "Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis otherwise insert %."
...
> (global-set-key "%" 'match-paren)
> or better
> (define-key emacs-lisp-mode-map "%" 'match-paren)
>
> Attention: If editing format strings, it might happen you are
> over a `(' while inserting a `%' is in your mind.

In that case, you can quote the `%':
  C-q %
to insert it.