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Find matching brace or parenthesis [message #1430677]

Wed, 24 September 2014 16:49

John Hite

Messages: 3
Registered: September 2014

Junior Member

Is there a hot key or short cut for finding a matching brace or parenthesis in the Eclipse editor? It is helpful when looking at a large piece of code to be able to click on a parenthesis and have the other shown. Also useful for finding mismatches.

thanks,
jh

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Re: Find matching brace or parenthesis [message #1432292 is a reply to message #1430677]

Fri, 26 September 2014 23:17

Jeff Hopkins

Messages: 5
Registered: July 2014

Junior Member

Shift-Ctrl-P should do the job. (Found under the menu Navigate->Go To->Go To Matching Bracket. Don't like that shortcut? Setup your own from Window->Preferences->General->Keys. There's a lot there so it's easy to get lost or overwhelmed.

The matching enclosure (brace, paren, bracket,...) is mildly highlighted when your cursor is sitting just outside the scope next to the enclosure symbol, but I've found that hard to see and it doesn't help when it is off screen.

You could set yourself up with code "folding" (Window->Preferences->C/C++->Editor->Folding) such that the file opens with many different sections collapsed with a +/- symbol to open/close the section so you only start looking at particular scopes. It's not exactly what you're asking for, but it is a method to keep the vertical screen footprint a little smaller and give you a slightly better chance that the matching enclosure is on the same page. (I've found that view a little annoying when I've forgotten a section is folded, but if it suits your purpose...)

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