Bug 26840

Summary: [painting] Please add Emacs-style "expression" brackets highlighting
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Daniel Serodio <daniel>
Component: TextAssignee: JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 Keywords: needinfo
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux-GTK   
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Description Daniel Serodio CLA 2002-11-21 07:02:39 EST 
As a long-time XEmacs user, I miss the "expression highlighting" that XEmacs
provides (don't remember if FSF Emacs does), where the whole expression between
the brackets is highlighted, instead of just the matching bracket.

I have to maintain some very bad code, with bizarre indentation, and "expression
highlighting" helps a lot to understand 7+ (!!!) levels of nesting if's
Comment 1 Adam Kiezun CLA 2002-11-21 08:36:16 EST 
go to the bracket of interest and double-click
that will hightlight the interesting region
Comment 2 Adam Kiezun CLA 2002-11-21 08:37:08 EST 
btw. try 'extract method' on those nested ifs :-)
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2003-06-16 06:52:20 EDT 
Does Adam's tip solve your problem? Also try
Edit > Expand Selection To > ...
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 2003-09-18 03:46:54 EDT 
waiting...
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2007-06-22 09:59:45 EDT 
Get rid of deprecated state.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2007-06-22 10:04:54 EDT 
.