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

I use the following small function for exactly that (though I don't know whether or not it matches vim's behavior; I'm no vim user myself):

(defun mo-match-paren (arg)
  "Go to the matching parenthesis."
  (interactive "p")
  (cond ((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)))))