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feline
Whole Tomato Software
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 Posted - Apr 01 2004 : 07:44:29 AM
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VAX already detects unmatched brackets, since it highlights them.
for the second time in 2 days i have managed to introduce an unmatched bracket into my 2000 line cpp file 
VS doesnt seem to be any help at finding this unmatched bracket. since VAX presumably knows where it is, could i have a way of jumping to it? |
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LarryLeonard
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Apr 01 2004 : 09:31:12 AM
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Hmmm... have you tried selecting the entire file, then hitting Alt-F8? If you're lucky, the bad brace may jump at out you...
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support
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Apr 01 2004 : 09:54:40 AM
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Interesting suggestion. At first thought, it seems reasonable. Unfortunately, it gets confusing quickly.
Highlighting of a parentheses and brace, ie an unmatched pair, imply typically something between the two is missing. Where is anyone's guess. VA X won't know any more than you do.
One could find examples where VA X could help, no doubt, but is implementation worth the effort? And if you cover one case, do people start finding more cases?
We wil pass on this one for now. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 01 2004 : 10:36:48 AM
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Larry, what did you expect Alt-F8 to do? on my machine it opens the Macro Explorer. i am guessing you are referring to formatting the code. if the file was smaller and simpler i would probably try that.
support, when i found the missing brace i looked for highlighted brackets, and VAX didn't seem to have spotted any. as you say, the idea sounds good but is probably a real headache to tackle.
a combination of the surrounding brackets being highlighted and ctrl-] allowed me to track it down quite quickly  |
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LarryLeonard
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Apr 01 2004 : 10:45:05 AM
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Larry, what did you expect Alt-F8 to do? on my machine it opens the Macro Explorer.
Hmmm... on my machine it does formatiing... quote:
i am guessing you are referring to formatting the code. if the file was smaller and simpler i would probably try that.
No, I don't mean you should actually save the results of the formatting - heaven forfend! But if you format the whole file, and there's an extra "{" somewhere, as you scroll down the file, you'll suddenly notice that methods are no longer flush left, but indented one tab. That means the "{" is in the previous method... glad you found it anyway!
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