little helpers

extras.el

;; You might want to paste these in your .emacs file

;; when over one paren it shows it's match
(show-paren-mode t)

;; C-c ) jumps to the matching paren
(defun goto-match-paren (arg)
  "Go to the matching  if on (){}[], similar to vi style of % "
  (interactive "p")
  ;; first, check for "outside of bracket" positions expected by forward-sexp, etc.
  (cond ((looking-at "[\[\(\{]") (forward-sexp))
        ((looking-back "[\]\)\}]" 1) (backward-sexp))
        ;; now, try to succeed from inside of a bracket
        ((looking-at "[\]\)\}]") (forward-char) (backward-sexp))
        ((looking-back "[\[\(\{]" 1) (backward-char) (forward-sexp))
        (t nil)))

(global-set-key (kbd "\C-c )") `goto-match-paren)