How to use the Show Matching (..) feature ?

[eteran]

How to use the Show Matching (..) feature ?

[eteran]

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "make it work"?

I use nedit/nedit-ng mostly with C++, so I can only really speak towards that. Basically, when the cursor is on a given position which is just after (before?) a bracket, it will highlight the matching bracket. If it is in "range" mode, then the whole range between the two brackets is highlighted.

Syntax-based, simply means that it uses syntax highlighting data to locate the match.

Additionally, I can hit Ctrl+m and it will jump to the match (holding shift will select the range between).

[ericxuo]

Hi,

Sorry, I was not precise enough.
It works for me with brackets, square brackets, parenthesis, ... stuff like this.
But i'd like to make it work for begin/end statements for ex (or case/endcase, ...).
As far as I remember, I could make it work that way. But I don't remember if I had to use a special routine or if it was working "out of the box".

Regards.

Xuo.

[eteran]

I am not particularly aware of how it would work for anything but braces. I'll look to see how the original code handled it and see if it was doable.

It would be a nice feature though...

[ericxuo]

Hi,

In an old native nedit.rc file, I've found the following :
nedit.matchPatterns: PLAIN:Default\n
Ada:Default\n
...
Verilog:{\n
Round braces::fp:s:"(":e:")":\n
Curly braces::fp:s:"{":e:"}":\n
Squared braces::fp:s:"[":e:"]":\n
begin_end::f:sw:"begin":ew:"end":\n
}\n
...

I'll try to see if I can use it again in the native nedit.

Regards.

Xuo.

[ericxuo]

Hi,

For csh, this is what I had :

Csh:{\n\
	Double Quotes:s:cfm:s:"""":\n\
	Single Quotes:s:cfm:s:"'":\n\
	Squared braces:s:f:s:"[":e:"]":\n\
	Round braces:s:f:s:"(":e:")":\n\
	Curly braces:s:f:s:"{":e:"}":\n\
	if statement:s:f:sw:"if":mw:"else":ew:"endif":\n\
	switch statement:s:f:sw:"switch":mw:"case":mw:"default":ew:"endsw":\n\
	foreach statement:s:f:sx:"foreach":ew:"end":\n\
	while statement:s:f:sw:"while":ew:"end":\n\
	statement group:g:Double Quotes:Single Quotes:if statement:switch statement:foreach statement:while statement:\n\
	Braces:g:Double Quotes:Single Quotes:Squared braces:Round braces:Curly braces:\n\
}\n\

But I can't make it work even though I had this stuff manually in my native nedit.rc file.
Too bad.

Xuo.

[eteran]

To be clear, it also doesn't work in original nedit, right?

if you find a case where it works in the original nedit, but not nedit-ng, please let me know by reopening this issue.

Closing for now.

[ericxuo]

Hi,

The developers of the native nedit gave me a patch that gives the possibility for the user to define/create some matching rules.
Here is an example of what I did for Verilog files :

This patch is not included by default in the native nedit sources.

Regards.

Xuo.

[eteran]

Interesting, If you send me the patch I can see how it applies to the original nedit and how it could he adapted to nedit-ng

[ericxuo]

Hi,

Here it is :
mp050226-V3-1-CVS20080907-2.patch.txt

Regards.

Xuo.

PS :
To install the patch :
cd
patch -p1 < ./mp050226-V3-1-CVS20080907-2.patch
make docs
make linux