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hebbja
Junior Member

United Kingdom
23 Posts

Posted - Mar 09 2004 : 06:08:12 AM

It would be very cool to mark up the various matching braces in different colours aka Excel.

Perhaps only for the current 'line' (or limited block), otherwise the whole file might go a bit psychedelic

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James Hebben

[email protected]
Senior Member

28 Posts

Posted - Mar 10 2004 : 07:29:50 AM

When I still was at uni I had an assignment where I had to colour brackets on a sliding scale.

Something like this:

( // 0x00000000
 ( // 0x00404040
  ( // 0x00808080
    ...
  ) // 0x00808080
 ) // 0x00404040
) // 0x00000000

I chose a sliding scale from pure black (RGB = 0, 0, 0) to middle grey (RGB = 128, 128, 128).
Ofcourse, any starting and ending colour works.

Edited by - [email protected] on Mar 10 2004 07:30:21 AM

Old as dirt
Tomato Guru

USA
246 Posts

Posted - Mar 10 2004 : 08:14:04 AM

I really like the way you highlight the enclosing braces, brackets, parantheses, etc. now so I don't want that messed up; however, if you could do the matching as requested above when the cursor was outside any statement and highlight to the next semicolon - as well as still doing the enclosing braces etc. that would be nice.
Ken

Ken

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Whole Tomato Software

5566 Posts

Posted - Mar 10 2004 : 11:59:26 AM

Many people have asked for better highlighting of matching/mismatching braces. We hope to get to it soon. We would like the improvement ourselves.

Unfortunately, the task is harder than it seems. We don't own the IDE. We just hack what it displays. Sigh.

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