I also wouldn't mind if it behaved more like its archetype, the Show
Paren mode of emacs where "whenever point is after a closing delimiter,
that delimiter and its matching opening delimiter are both highlighted;
otherwise, if point is before an opening delimiter, the matching closing
delimiter is highlighted". Even people who don't need/like this feature
for writing their own poper code, could benefit from this while reading
code written by others.

Alex

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Von: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] Im Auftrag von
Jimmie Houchin
Gesendet: Samstag, 3. April 2004 23:23
An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Betreff: Re: Autobold in 3.7-5868


Tim Rowledge wrote:
> Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>In 3.7-5868, when you type "]", it bolds the character to the left of 
>>it, if that character is a "[".  This seems to happen for (-) and {-},

>>as well (but not for <->).
> 
> Actually it seems to do it across a span of characters. It could 
> conceivably be useful if it did a bit more to indicate the matching 
> range.

Maybe it could be modified or enhanced make both characters bold or even

possibly bold and alternate color. Also possibly reverting back to 
normal after a set time or when user enters other text.

Just some thoughts. I personally like the feature.

Jimmie