Slick V3.3 manual Viewing and Defining Begin/End Pairs, Example

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To place the cursor on the opposite end of the structure when the cursor is on a begin or end keyword pair, press Ctrl+] (find_matching_paren command or from the menu click Navigate → Go to Matching Parenthesis). The find_matching_paren command supports matching parenthesis pairs { }, [ ] and ( ).

Tip

For Python, SlickEdit® Core supports the matching of the colon (:) token and the end of context. See Begin/End Structure Matching for Python for more information.

Viewing and Defining Begin/End Pairs

Use the Extension Options Dialog to view or define the begin/end pairs for any language. To access this dialog, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the File Extension Setup setting. On the Extension Options dialog, select the extension you wish to work with from the Extension drop-down list, then select the Advanced Tab.

In the Begin/end pairs text field, specify the pairs in a format similar to a regular expression.

Note

This text box is unavailable for languages that have special begin/end matching built-in.

The examples below illustrate the syntax for defining the begin/end pairs. The begin and end pair match- ing option is case-sensitive by default. Append ;I to ignore case.

Example 1

(begin),(case)(end);

The above begin/end pairs are for the Pascal language. The Pascal language requires a more sophistic- ated expression. This expression indicates the keywords begin or case start a block and the keyword end terminates the block. The , (comma) is used to specify multiple begins or multiple ends. The operat- or is used to separate begins from ends.

Example 2

(#ifdef),(#ifndef),(#if)(#endif)

The above pairs are for the C language. The C language has the added complication that #if is a sub- string of #ifdef. Due to the implementation of begin/end matching, #ifdef must appear before #if.

More settings for begin/end pairs can be found on the Formatting Options dialog specific to the extension you are working with. From the main menu, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the File Extension Setup setting. On the Extension Options dialog, select the extension you wish to work with from the Extension drop-down list, then click the Options but- ton. See the individual language sections in the chapter Chapter 7, Language-Specific Editing for more in- formation about these options.

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