If I have a bit of text like $var1 = "some text"; $var2 = "some more text"; cursor-keying past the second quote will briefly light up the first, but the third quote will briefly lite up the second (and the fourth the third again). Seems odd?
But keying past a quote where it's matching quote is not visible, the whole *window* flashes yellow..
This happens when working with syntax coloring for HTML (ASP) and HTML (PHP) at least, probably others.
Can anyone reproduce?
Regards,
Martin
On 8. Nov 2004, at 1:31, M Spreij wrote:
But keying past a quote where it's matching quote is not visible, the whole *window* flashes yellow..
Yes, this is intended so that one knows if a character has a mate even when the mate is not visible.
With characters where the start character is equal to the end character I realize one gets too much flashing, because it can't easily balance them -- that is, it could search from the start of the text each time and count, I didn't initially do that because then speed could depend on the length of the file (and position of character), and also, I may get it wrong, e.g. if at the beginning of the file there are un-matched characters in strings/comments, these would throw off all further matching.
When I add the ability to mark strings/comments etc. in the syntax files, it may be possible to improve upon this (since I can then skip these elements).
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M Spreij