Working with the limited tools at my disposal (this will all go away with BeSpin, if they know what they're doing), I introduce a hotkey which finds the first open paren / brace / bracket and closes it at your current cursor location:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3646 This is *almost* done. For some reason, I didn't see J. Palmieri's most recent reply until now, but there's a very easy fix. The problem with your suggestion is that highlighting something in a cell is rather difficult since we use textareas and not franken-divs as you see in the WSYIWYG html editors. We've tried to use a few of those, but they have way too much CPU / RAM overhead. We played with the emacs (?) style where the cursor jumps to the paren for a half-second or so, but this was rife with problems, too. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > > Hi > > Has there been any progress on this? > http://www.mail-archive.com/sage-supp...@googlegroups.com/msg03975.html > > One of the often heard comments from lecturers is that they > are wasting time on basic syntax, when students mismatch > parenthesis. In the simplest instance, when a closing ] or ) > is typed it helps to highlight the correct (nested or not) > matching left one. > > regards, > Jan > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
