Highlight BOTH matching braces into Gedit

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Htechno picture Htechno · Jun 3, 2011 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

Any way to highlight both braces on Gedit?, it's annoying when you have several braces joined and is not clear which one are you pointing.

Highlighting both braces would be a simple solution to know exactly what are the starting and ending ones.

Thanks.

Answer

boulder_ruby picture boulder_ruby · Aug 10, 2012

Actually this feature does exist, to an extent anyway, in Gedit (2, in my case). Under preferences there is a check box in the view tab on the bottom called "Bracket Matching".

With that checked you can highlight the opposite bracket delimiter by putting your cursor over its twin. It goes both ways.

However, seeing that I use ruby, which utilizes "do/end" tags instead of curly brackets, I'm still looking for a hack for that. I'll try to remember to come back and share any more information that I find.

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