Vi’s “paren bounce” feature for Emacs

[elfs]

I need to make clear that I did not invent the code below. I’m not sure who did, but the topic of making vi’s “paren bounce” feature work in Emacs came up in a conversation I had the other day, and I’m posting the chunk of code that’s lived in my .emacs file since, oh heck, must have been back in my days at F5 Networks.  This code creates a new

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[_candide_]

Eh, I just use C-M-f and C-M-b … when I remember that forward-sexp and backward-sexp are there, that is.

(As it turns out, I also bound these two to C-M-Right and C-M-Left, respectively. But I periodically forget that I did that, too. ^_^)