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bug #62415: Using Cursor Movement to Indicate Parenthesis Matching is Confusing

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 04 May 2022 10:50:43 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  GUI Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Invalid / Not an Octave Bug Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  WillyWonksters Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * 6.2.0
Operating System:  * GNU/Linux Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Tue 17 May 2022 04:59:58 AM UTC, comment #2: 

As this feature is related to readline and can be disabled in readline's config file, I am closing this bug as invalid.

Torsten Lilge <ttl>
Group Member
Thu 05 May 2022 02:59:28 AM UTC, comment #1: 

If you mean the behavior at the command prompt, then the feature is part of the readline library, not Octave itself.  So it seems to me that it would make the most sense to have that feature be an option in readline and I don't see anything to fix in Octave itself.

BTW, you can also disable this feature by adding


set blink-matching-paren off


to your ~/.inputrc file.

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Group administrator
Wed 04 May 2022 10:50:43 PM UTC, original submission:  

When closing a parenthesis or bracket, the indication of which parenthesis is being closed is indicated by momentarily moving the cursor back to the one being closed.

I initially perceived this as an annoying and janky bug, and attempted to manually correct the cursor position.

Is it possible to indicate this by leaving the cursor where it is, but momentarily highlighting the relevant parentheses/brackets? This is how the Kate text editor handles this, for example.


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