Can put a highlighter to mark which parentheses you forgot?

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Hello, good morning, that is the question, or this isnt possible? thank you!

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Most editors, and that includes IDEs, have bracket matching as an option. That usually includes (...) and [...] and {...}, and, if you are lucky, maybe <...> too. Hover the mouse on a bracket and its partner will be highlighted. You can't mark the brackets you forgot because they aren't there, obviously. You should get a hint where you have forgotten a bracket of any sort from the compiler error. But it is only a hint and it may give the wrong location.

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If you don't see a way to do this, it may help to know what editor or IDE you are using.

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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Most editors, and that includes IDEs, have bracket matching as an option. That usually includes (...) and [...] and {...}, and, if you are lucky, maybe <...> too. Hover the mouse on a bracket and its partner will be highlighted. You can't mark the brackets you forgot because they aren't there, obviously. You should get a hint where you have forgotten a bracket of any sort from the compiler error. But it is only a hint and it may give the wrong location.

The problem is that I already have autocomplete selected and they don't work for me.

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But that's typing assistance, like if you type "new Zorb(" it can automatically make that into "new Zorb()" without you having to type the closing parenthesis.

I find that a useful feature when I'm typing new code but it's a pain when I want to insert text which includes a left parenthesis -- usually I don't notice that has happened and then I have to fumble around and fix the misaligned parentheses.

Bracket matching, on the other hand, will highlight the matching right parenthesis when you click on a left parenthesis. Can be useful if you botched up the matching (see above).

Does this help? I'm not really clear on what you are looking for.

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I think BV is looking for bracket matching; he might find using Eclipse easier if he had the interface in his own language rather than English. I think it is in the “Text Editors” page which can be found by clicking slightly higher on the window shown on the screenshot.