#25 brace detection/highlight

[Martin Daniel Kirk]

one key element for success of making stable code, is to narrow down those things that make buggy code - one reason that code doesn't work is mostly unclosed brackets

i know that codepress supports autoclose brackets... but for functions'... math that is, you sometimes sit with a lot of brackets/braces without know odds from ends

to make it short, i'd like to see brace detection...

one easy way to do it, is to count opening and closing brackets

pseudo:

if( curr_letter.match(/(\[)|(\{)|(\()/i)
count_forwards(curr_letter)
elseif( curr_letter.match(/(\])|(\})|(\))/i)
count_backwards(curr_letter)
else
do_nothing()

func count_forwards(letter){
cnt = 1
indx = 0
while( cnt ){
indx++
if( next_char == letter )
cnt++
if( next_char == opposid(letter) )
cnt--
}
return indx // or set style on closing tag
}

[Adam Jimenez]

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would be very neat

in dreamweaver you press ctrl + # and it highlights all the code in the current braces. press it again and it highlights the next outer set etc.

[Martin Daniel Kirk]

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Balanced Braces in Dreamweaver is useless compared to Notepad++/VisualStudio Brace highlighting

in DW u need to press a set of keys to see the brace length... in VS + NP++ they are shown automatically.. however in VS/NP++ only the braces are highlighted, making it easier to locate anny error

in Vb.NET the engine indents the code for u - also helping alot to locate missing "End ..."'s