Thread: Help on Vi for the C programming

Dear Friends,

I am working on C in the Vi editor [ Unix ] I want to know how do we keep track of the opening and closing braces. There is a SET command there called "set match" which shows the opening and closing braces.

But I do not know if that is correct ....is not working ... I tried a lot .... if anyone knows and can help me resolving that ... In case some other SET command is there ...... I checked with the "man vi" in the UNIX prompt .....As I am debugging one program it has become difficult to check that out...

Please Help !!!

with best regards & Thanks
Mehul Doshi

go to the opening/closing brace and hit %

this will take you to the corresponding closing/opening brace.

if there isn't one, it won't go anywhere.

Dear Friend,

Thank You very much. One more help if you can do for me .....one more favor .... how do u do beautification in the C programming via Vi editor .... like we do in the FoxPro etc...

with best regards
Mehul DoshiFoxpro

I don't know what you mean by beautification..

xemacs is a very good editor.. you might want to try that..

if you are talking about making the code look neat,
etc., I believe there are software that allow you to
do that... try searching in google..

Do you mean something like indent(1) ?

Try man indent

Dear Friend,

Yes beautification I mean is indentation. I am trying indent command in UNIX let me see if it does what I want ....

Thank You for your support ....

with best regards
Mehul Doshi

To all my Dear Friend,

I found it and it is very helpful for me. As the debugging of the program has become very easy now ....

Hope to get similar kind of support again. Thank You all of you once Again.

with best regards
Mehul Doshi

GNU Emacs is nice to work with. It does the opening/closing brace hilighting automatically. It also indents your code automatically. You just have to hit enter and start typing the next line of code from the beginning of the line, than then Emacs suddenly indents it the proper number of spaces.