On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:07, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
But emacs isn't perfect either...
I use xemacs. The highlighting is too easy to miss. I'm considering writing a function to automatically provide the closing brace, bracket, paren, etc as soon as I give it the first character. Then there's no way to have an unbalanced situation unless you step on a character. kwrite does that and I got used to it.
When you've written it I'd be grateful if you shared it :)
In the example I cited, I tried having xemacs help me locate the problem, but it got confused. I've noticed that xemacs will sometimes mess up if comments contain ' or ". It won't properly color code real code because it believes its inside a quoted string when its not.
Thats exactly what I mean when I say it isn't perfect. It gets even worse with perl, because the comment character # can also be used not as a comment (eg m#...#) which emacs doesn't like. Oh well!
do any of you use jedit on linux? i have it on my windows machine, haven't gotten around to loading it on my windows box just yet. it has several 'code cleaner' plugins, i am curious if it has one that does what you suggest with the 'hanging' braces, etc.
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shane
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