With emacs, how to go to the pairing (balancing) parentheses

Question

When cursor on one parentheses, how to jump to the pairing parentheses. Good to work in emacs -nw .

Just like % in Vim.

;;Afte

Answer 1

Use C-M-right and C-M-left (respectively backward-sexp and forward-sexp) to go to the beginning or the end of the current expression. This works for parenthesis pairs but also for plain words.