Suggestion: Single, Double & Nested Quote
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Notepad++ comes with *Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting* feature.
it would be quite handy if Single & Double Quotes are also Highlighted when typed or place cursor, in pairs like (,{ or [
while coding PHP or JavaScript, i often find it difficult to track open quotes or matching/closing nested quotes.
===== an example of my messy code =============================================
$html="\n<a name=\"".$h_number.'"><br/></a><div class="tp"></div><div class="hdtp"></div><div class="hd">'
.'<div class="dls">'
.'<a href="" onmouseover="t(this,' ."'3','','','');\">Page Title</a><br/>"
.'<a href="?#book-' . $b_number .'" onmouseover="t(this,' ."'1','bk". $b_number ."','','');\">Book-$b_number: $b_title_truncated</a><br/>"
.'<a href="#chapter-' . $c_number .'" onmouseover="t(this,' ."'1','ch". $c_number ."','','');\">Chapter-$c_number: $chapter_title_truncated</a><br/>"
.'<a href="#' .$h_number .'" onmouseover="t(this,' ."'2','','','');\">H Number: $h_number</a>";
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Highlighting of the matching braces, this is a scintilla function.
As for highlighting matching tokens/tags/delimeters/etc... well, that would typically be a function of the specific language styler ( lexer ) in use. Some, like the PowerShell external lexer plugin track quotes, literals, here-strings, escapes, and more making it easier for the coder to read what they wrote; others, like the HTML styler matches do similar but with respect to the mark up language or embedded scripting language in use.