Matching braces in Emacs

Question

In GNU Emacs there is a feature to highlight matching brackets in code with the same colour.

However when the code which the brackets enclose is really long with severa

Answer 1

This is actually a very standard binding: C-M-f and C-M-b to go back and forwards by default. In most modes C-M-f will take you forwards to the matching brace and C-M-b will take you backwards to the matching brace. This also works for things like quotes, pretty much the same way.

These bindings are easy to remember if you already use C-f and C-b for navigation. (If you don't, you should.) They're just like moving forward and backwards by a character lifted to moving by expression (which depends on mode).