R commandline editor question
Hi Ajay well ESS has such a facility. However, I think Mathematica has a super scheme: unbalanced brackets show up in red, making them obvious. This is particularly good for spotting wrongly interleaved brackets, as in ([ blah di blah )] <note bracket closure is out of order> in which case both opening braces are highlighted in red: and the system won't accept a newline until the closures are all correctly matched. Would anyone else find such a thing useful? Could the ESS team make something like this happen?
On May 27, 2005, at 12:11 pm, Ajay Narottam Shah wrote:
I am using R 2.1 on Apple OS X.
When I get the ">" prompt, I find it works well with emacs commandline
editing. Keys like M-f C-k etc. work fine.
The one thing that I really yearn for, which is missing, is bracket
matching When I am doing something which ends in )))) it is really
useful to have emacs or vi-style bracket matching, so as to be able
to visually keep track of whether I have the correct matching
brackets, whether ( or { or [.
I'm sure this is possible. I will be most grateful if someone will
show the way :-) Thanks,
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