| Mark code blocks in different colours ? [message #1821540] |
Fri, 14 February 2020 06:34  |
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Hello,
I have been learning Java and using Eclipse for 4 months. Of course I have tried other IDE, but I still prefer Eclipse.
What I noticed: Programs like "BlueJ" or "Visual Studio Code" show by colored markers or sideways strokes how far a program block (e.g. a loop, a constructor, a method declaration etc.) reaches. Is there a plugin to set up something like this in Eclipse ?
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| Re: Mark code blocks in different colours ? [message #1821823 is a reply to message #1821540] |
Thu, 20 February 2020 10:57  |
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Eclipse JDT has the following built-in support:
- Selecting either opening or closing brace will highlight the matching brace, so you'll see beginning and end of the block.
- Press Shift+Alt+Up (Select Enclosing Element), you may need to press it several times to see larger blocks.
- In properly formatted sources, the indentation level should give a most useful visual clue for block structure (do you use auto formatting?)
There could be more ...
If you look for something fancier, you might be interested in trying the EditBox plugin (http://editbox.sourceforge.net/), but I'm not sure this is still maintained / works with recent versions. Their market place entry looks somewhat recent: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/editbox
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