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Re: st: parenthesis highlighting feature-wish list


From   Leny Mathew <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: parenthesis highlighting feature-wish list
Date   Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:07:30 -0400

Thank You, Stas. I didn't know that this existed, very useful. Thanks

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Almost any serious text editor will do this, and many have Stata
> mode(s) set up by interested users. See
> http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html.
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Leny Mathew <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Statalisters,
>>
>> I'm just putting this out there as a potentially useful feature, I
>> don't know the difficulty of implementing it, so please forgive me if
>> this is unworkable. Matlab has a feature where the parenthesis would
>> be highlighted in color when it was balanced. When you have a long
>> expression with multiple parenthesis, when you close the parenthesis,
>> the opening one would be highlighted in color that would let you know
>> that the parenthesis is balanced. This would be so perfect and would
>> save a lot of time that would otherwise be spent squinting at the
>> screen!
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Leny
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