On May 25, 2008, at 12:11 AM, Peter Rossi wrote:
I realize that textmate implements automatic pairing of delimiters such as parentheses. However, this does not prevent you from removing one of the paired parentheses etc during the editing process. In vi, I would use "%" to toggle between open and close delimiters to debug syntax. I can't find a similar feature in textmate.
Have you noticed that when you "pass over" the closing paren/brace/ bracket/quote, the opening one will blink? By pass over, I mean either (1) typing the closing character TextMate has already inserted for you, or (2) using the arrow key to move right over the closing character. If you don't get a blink, then the closing paren/brace/ bracket/quote is unmatched. This won't help you if the opening character is not on the screen, but works pretty well (IMO) for double-checking on your way out of a complex, nested expression.
-- Phil