[TxMt] Request: Matching scopes.

[Allan Odgaard]

On 22/1/2006, at 21:13, Mikael Säker wrote:

> [,,,] How about making the pattern matching engine scope-aware, so  
> that I can match beginning and end of scope? I believe having that  
> would make it a breeze to get indentation to work okay with Scheme,  
> just make a preference tied to scope "expression.scheme" and tell  
> it to increase indentation at the beginning ot the scope and  
> decrease it at the end. Each nested scope would then automatically  
> add an indentation-level, which is what is needed to indent right.  
> (And while I'm at it, to be able to set folding at the beginning  
> and end of scopes would also be awesome... :))

While I am unlikely to add this in its raw form, I will keep the  
suggestion in mind, as coupling scopes with folding patterns, and/or  
regular expressions (and maybe indent) is something I have a vague  
idea about could work out really well.