trailing-parens.el

;; add this to your ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el file

;; jump parens
(defun match-paren (arg)
	(interactive "p")
	(cond
		((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
		((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
		((looking-at "\\s\{") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
		((looking-at "\\s\}") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
		(t (self-insert-command (or arg 1)))
	)
)

;; this enables trailing parenthesis support
(defadvice lisp-indent-line (after my-lisp-indentation)
	"makes close parens on their own line indent like C"
	(interactive) ; NOT (interactive "p")
	(let ((col-num))
		(save-excursion
			(beginning-of-line)
			
			(when (looking-at "^\\s-*\)")
				(search-forward "\)")
				(backward-sexp)
				(setf col-num (current-column))
				(forward-sexp)
				(backward-char)
				(delete-region (line-beginning-position) (point))
				(indent-to col-num)
			)
		)
		(if col-num (move-to-column col-num))
	)	
)

(ad-activate 'lisp-indent-line)

(global-set-key "\C-j" 'match-paren)

(setq line-spacing 1) ; makes things a little less cluttered
(setq-default tab-width 4)                                                                  
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode t) ; use tabs instead of spaces
(setq lisp-indent-offset 4)
(defalias 'sh-newline-and-indent 'newline-and-indent)
(defalias 'backward-delete-char-untabify 'backward-delete-char)

Awesome, thanks for this Greg!