(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?

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A related suggestion would also be to provide colour information, as
seen in Excel, so that brackets can be matched easily by eye.  Perhaps
the plagiarism could be taken further by copying the way it briefly
emboldens each matching pair as the cursor steps in and out of them.

Of course, this would have to be very much an optional thing - I doubt
multicoloured brackets everywhere is to everyone's taste.

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"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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