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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [9fans] samuel (fwd)
Date: Tue,  5 Mar 2002 09:41:22 +0000
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Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> I would like for the text editor to tell me (with a single click) where
> the start/end of a construction (be it function/if/while/...) is, if i
> am at the end/start. sort of balancing the parantheses(sp?).
> this is only neccessary if the language is not always visually balanced, like
> a few languages are (ex: python).

I have recently run into the following style:

#if some_condition /* { */
....
#else /* } comment about new condition { */
....
#endif /* } */

This turns out to be very helpful for brace-matching editors like sam
(when double-clicking on the "inside" of a brace).