"Alan Holding" <man### [at] nildramcouk> wrote in message
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> (Apologies if this has been suggested already.)
>
> If (i) the editor will be looked at during the development of POV 4 and
(ii) if
> the SDL still warrants it, would it be possible for the editor to
automatically
> insert closed brackets whenever open brackets are typed?

If someone hasn't already suggested it they probably thought it  :-)

Neat idea, I just wonder how that would affect typing out the contents
between the pair. At first I thought maybe that would place the closing
brace* once the predetermined contents were fullfilled, but that wouldn't
work since most everything has a variable number of inclusions possible. So
then I thought it would need to be immediate, type a { and get a } too. That
would work if the caret stayed between them and let you fill in whatever
else is typed. When it wouldn't work exactly well probably is if a person
edits a lot as they go along. Or at least it could be a potential bother.
But I like the idea after having lost track of those things so many times.


*brace for {} and brackets for [] even though people say brackets for both
{} and <>?

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