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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: VI* on VMS
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:48:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:49:32 -0400, bill wrote:

>> For one simple but very important example, you have brace matching in
>> emacs so you can easily check the closing brace matches the correct
>> opening brace.
>> 
> Which is great if [you’re] writing C programs.  But of little value for
> anything else.

BIND, DHCP and nftables config files also use brace delimiters for 
stanzas, just for example.