Emacs, cperl and electric parens question

tyrone_slothrop has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I recently have started using emacs and cperl-mode in it. I have electric parens enabled. My question is how does one get to the right of the last paren easily after typing the text inside of the parens? I know about C-c C-j for going to the next line but I just want to move to the right of the last paren.

I've been using C-e (or C-f) but thought there must be a better way.

Thanks.

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Re: Emacs, cperl and electric parens question by igelkott (Priest) on Dec 11, 2007 at 22:19 UTC
Getting outside of the "last" parenthesis would probably take some lisp code but getting outside the current parenthetical enclosure is `forward-list`, which is normally bound to `C-M-n` (Control Meta n). I guess the lisp code to get to the last (enclosing) parenthesis wouldn't be too difficult (for a lisp programmer ... which I am not). I'd probably try a recursive call to forward-list + forward-char until forward-char fails. As an extra pointer, you might get something from "paredit" of Lisp mode. There are a few other parenthesis functions like M-) and Esc-) but they've never worked as I'd expect.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Emacs, cperl and electric parens question
by igelkott (Priest) on Dec 11, 2007 at 22:19 UTC

forward-list

C-M-n

I guess the lisp code to get to the last (enclosing) parenthesis wouldn't be too difficult (for a lisp programmer ... which I am not). I'd probably try a recursive call to forward-list + forward-char until forward-char fails.

As an extra pointer, you might get something from "paredit" of Lisp mode. There are a few other parenthesis functions like M-) and Esc-) but they've never worked as I'd expect.

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