Message-ID: <e737f5395d5c4d3b583e859380c15d08@soc.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-05-27T11:36:28Z
From: robin hankin
Subject: R commandline editor question
In-Reply-To: <20050527111131.GL17261@lubyanka.local>
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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