Bug 26840 - [painting] Please add Emacs-style "expression" brackets highlighting
Summary: [painting] Please add Emacs-style "expression" brackets highlighting
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux-GTK
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: JDT-Text-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: needinfo
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Reported: 2002-11-21 07:02 EST by Daniel Serodio CLA
Modified: 2007-06-22 10:04 EDT (History)
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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 
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