Re: make emacs handle 'if fi' like it does parens

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

hput <hputn3@zohomail.com> writes:

> Version: GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit,\
> cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2021-11-05
>
> Seems like google is getting harder and harder to find the right
> strings to unearth wanted info.
>
> We have a fine manual but it doesn't respond well to the hill-billy
> strings my imagination supplies when using the info 'i' or 's'
> searches. 
>
> At any rate, I'm not having much luck looking for ways to make emacs
> handle 'if', 'fi' in any shell-scripting mode, like it does parens in
> things like cperl-mode.
>
> I'd like to be able to jump between matching `if fi' and have the
> matching pardner hilite as when putting cursor just after closing
> paren.
>
> If it is possible using standard emacs commands already, maybe
> someone will be kind enough to mention the combinations?  If not, then
> .. where might I find code that does what I'm after?

(This probably should have gone to emacs.help, not emacs.gnus.general,
fwiw)

A brief test indicates that `forward-sexp' and `backward-sexp', bound to
C-M-f and C-M-b, do what you want.