Of course it should be in ESS. In fact, it is for me, anyway (different colors depending on whether they match or not).
Check out the paren-hilit or paren-match (or something like that) customize options. I.e. M-x customize-groups <ret> paren <spc> (which ought to complete on names of groups/options starting with paren) or blink-paren. (I'm not on an Emacs-enabled computer right now). On 5/27/05, Robin Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ajay > > well ESS has such a facility. > > However, I think Mathematica has a super scheme: unbalanced brackets > show up > in red, making them obvious. > > This is particularly good for spotting wrongly interleaved brackets, as > in > > ([ blah di blah )] > > <note bracket closure is out of order> > > in which case both opening braces are highlighted in red: and the > system won't > accept a newline until the closures are all correctly matched. > > Would anyone else find such a thing useful? > > Could the ESS team make something like this happen? > > > > > > On May 27, 2005, at 12:11 pm, Ajay Narottam Shah wrote: > > > I am using R 2.1 on Apple OS X. > > > > When I get the ">" prompt, I find it works well with emacs commandline > > editing. Keys like M-f C-k etc. work fine. > > > > The one thing that I really yearn for, which is missing, is bracket > > matching When I am doing something which ends in )))) it is really > > useful to have emacs or vi-style bracket matching, so as to be able > > to visually keep track of whether I have the correct matching > > brackets, whether ( or { or [. > > > > I'm sure this is possible. I will be most grateful if someone will > > show the way :-) Thanks, > > > > -- > > Ajay Shah Consultant > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economic Affairs > > http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah Ministry of Finance, New Delhi > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > > -- > Robin Hankin > Uncertainty Analyst > National Oceanography Centre, Southampton > European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK > tel 023-8059-7743 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- best, -tony "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html