> 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?
ess is great, but I was asking about the R commandline. I tend to write a lot of stuff on the fly at the R commandline. Yes, colours are a great way to deal with this, and this feature should ideally be in ESS. -- 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