[OS X TeX] finding missing braces

[Alan Munn]

At 2:30 PM -0600 3/4/07, brian at pongonova.net wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:40:26PM +0100, Rolf Schmolling wrote:
>>  Someone I met in texusergroup hinted about some editors beeing smart 
>>  enough to do this but I really want to hang to TexShop because it 
>>  seems the only thing I'm able to work properly (simple but elegant,
>  > no programming-skill neded, excellent sync between source and pdf)?
>
>
>  vim would take care of this little problem for you.
>Basically, the synax highlighting changes colors when you open a
>brace...close it, and the color changes again.  It's visually apparent
>where the missing closing braces are.

(Actually I assume it's only visually apparent where the unmatched 
*open* braces are...)

How robust is this?  Does it deal with nested braces correctly?

It seems that this behaviour could also be put into the syntax 
colouring of TeXShop.  Anyone?

Alan

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