Question

I am a newbie to emacs and have been using it only for a month.
My queries are:

1. I want to track the matching opening and closing braces in the editor. Is there a command for this?

2. When trying to use emacs using cygwin in Windows, C-x C-c to close emacs does not work!
   Is there a way I can get this to work?

Answer 1

I personally like mic-paren, which has many options for customizing how to show matching parentheses, including showing you the line of the matching paren in the minibuffer when it is off-screen.

I set it up as follows:

(setq paren-dont-touch-blink t)
(require 'mic-paren)
(paren-activate)
(setq paren-match-face 'highlight)
(setq paren-sexp-mode t)