On 29/6/2006, at 2:32, A J wrote:

[I am aware that things can be configured so that there is a brief flash on the opening paren when the cursor moves over the closing paren, but I am looking for a way to indicate the match more obviously and less transiently. Also, the flash only seems to occur when the cursor is on the closing paren, not the opening one, and I want to be able to find the match in both directions].

And that’s all there is ATM.

I am trying to figure out how to do an emacs-like highlighting of the match of a paired character such as a paren. I feel sure it must be supported in TextMate but somehow I just can't run it down in the documentation. Is there a way to do this?

When I want to this, I'm settling for putting my cursor just inside the parenthesis that I want to match and hit Cmd-shift-B. This highlights the "span" that this parenthesis delineates. At that point I can hit right-arrow to hop to end paren, or left-arrow to hop to the first.

Hmm .. now that I think of it that way, you should probably be able to record that process as a macro and assign either one to your favorite keystroke.

Hah ... I'm gonna do that now ...

Thanks, -steve