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From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Check brackets and parentheses
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:17:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPm68ZgphzZgUh4TvRXAM_+pT25cK9=wbfF4v_8nybfPu3Wm+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64C3576E-DF3A-470B-82C9-295690C44AB8@gmail.com>

2012/7/5 Gilbert Houtekamer <gilbert.houtekamer@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I sometimes find myself looking for misplaced and missing brackets for a long time, as context may given errors about a completely different location.
>
> For example this one took me a while
>    \goto{\url[localhost20381}[url(localhost20381)]
>
> (missing ] after this localhost20381).
>
> Is there a SciTE or Notepad++ or command line script that anyone wrote to help with this?  It can be more or less sophisticated, but I found that missing / mismatched { [ ] } give the most confusing errors.

A lot of (most?) programming editors do paren checking, at least in
that they show which paren matches the one the cursor is on.
Maybe you can simply switch it on/off per language in your editor?
(It’s been a while since I tried SciTE...)

Greetlings, Hraban
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-06  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-05 18:40 Gilbert Houtekamer
2012-07-06  7:17 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2012-07-06  7:21 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-06  7:38 ` Pontus Lurcock
2012-07-06 12:37   ` Hongwen Qiu
2012-07-06 14:24     ` Pontus Lurcock

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