On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Tim Chase wrote:
> > (* n (factorial (- n 1)))))
> >
[3 secs for me to count, moving cursor over is slower]
> > find a font and a means of displaying it which slightly disturbs the
> > spacing, position or shape of successive parentheses, so the pattern is
[...]
> >
> > Given my preferred editor is Vim, and I'm using it on Windows, mostly
> > with PuTTY talking to a Unix box, does anyone know if I can do this?
> > Maybe there's another solution?
>
> Well, when coming in over a SSH connection, there's not much you can do to
> make the font itself change. However, you can colorize differently. Toying
But if there is a wobbly font I could switch to manually for
everything, at the Windows end, that would suffice.
> around, I came up with this:
>
> :match Error /)\zs)/
>
> which seems to correctly highlight alternating adjacent parents (using the
> "Error" group, which I tend to use, but adjust according to taste). My
I'll probably need another group for that, but this looks a useful technique.
[...] Spellcap looks good to me.
> original though was to try and do something of the form
> "\%1c(\|%3c(\|%5c(\|..." for alternating screen columns, but I like the
> compactness of the actual solution I gave, as well as its ability to work
> regardless of the number of columns in your terminal window.
Thank you.
>
> -tim
>
Hugh
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