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Emacs commands for navigating indented outlines (was Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!?)

From Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.misc, comp.programming
Subject Emacs commands for navigating indented outlines (was Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!?)
Date 2026-08-28 20:19 -0300
Organization Primarily biological and memetic
Message-ID <87qzjhbzq0.fsf_-_@debian> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <87msa9h76f.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <20250615144624.27b35f75@deangelis.fenrir.org.uk> <102nccu$14c9g$2@dont-email.me> <20250616183456.0ded320d@deangelis.fenrir.org.uk> <102q842$1u86q$1@dont-email.me>

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> I also have custom commands defined in Emacs to jump between lines
> with matching indentation. This lets me quickly navigate between the
> beginnings and ends of compound statements.

This sounds interesting!  What keybindings have you found most useful,
and what have you found this most useful for other than
conventionally-indented source code?

Kragen

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Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-19 05:17 +0000
  Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-13 23:31 -0400
    Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-06-14 02:25 -0700
      Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-15 00:58 -0400
        Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-06-14 23:04 -0700
          Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Brian Morrison <news@fenrir.org.uk> - 2025-06-15 14:46 +0100
            Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-06-15 13:44 -0700
              Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Brian Morrison <news@fenrir.org.uk> - 2025-06-16 18:32 +0100
                Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-06-16 11:38 -0700
            Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-15 21:02 +0000
              Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Brian Morrison <news@fenrir.org.uk> - 2025-06-16 18:34 +0100
                Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-16 23:07 +0000
                Emacs commands for navigating indented outlines (was Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!?) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-28 20:19 -0300
          Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-17 23:38 -0400
            Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-06-18 09:27 -0700
              Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-19 01:30 -0400
                Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-06-19 02:23 -0700
                Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-20 01:27 -0400
                Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-06-20 12:32 -0700
    Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-06 16:30 +0200
      Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-08-06 08:17 -0700
        Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-07 03:49 +0200

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