You don't need emacs for good parenthesis control. The same tools emacs uses for this are available in about a dozen editors at least. Vim, Atom, Cursive/Intell

You don't need emacs for good parenthesis control. The same tools emacs uses for this are available in about a dozen editors at least. Vim, Atom, Cursive/IntelliJ, Eclipse, Sublime Text, it's pretty common in most good editors.