Bug 313938

Description Henrik Lindberg 2010-05-21 12:29:34 EDT

Hi,
the automatic bracket matching (i.e. matching bracket being highlighted)
only works for me in some situations.

As an example - in this b3 text:

repository svn MyRepo { connection : "http://abc.org"; }
resolution {
select-first {
repository MyRepo { path : "/features" ; }
}
}

the matching does not work for the outermost brackets.
(In fact, this part was the only part where it actually managed to match
brackets).

Wonders if the bracket matching is done with aid from the grammar and that the problems occur because of backtracking...

Seems like the matching of brackets should be done at the lexical level so should not really be affected by a complicated grammar.

The matching also breaks if there are syntax errors:
Here matching works (using | to highlight what it matches, and what I expect:
  select-first {
    repository  MyRepo {| path : "features" ; }|
  }

But not here:
  select-first {|
    repository  MyRepo  path : "features" ; }|
  }

I assume it is supposed to really show the lexical matching as this is very useful when there are matching errors.

Problem can be observed with latest b3, and input like:
function foo() { }