Re: marrying braket for ?: operator

[Robert Marshall <spam@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Baloff <washdc@wash.edu> wrote on 28 Jul 2005 15:20:51 +1000:
>> Hello
> 
>> when I move my pointer to a braket, it highlight its marrying
>> braket.  but how can I get it to do the same with the ternary
>> if-else operator (?:) I hope this is a good group for this question
>> otherwise please point me.
> 
> It's exactly the right group!
> 
> There is no command which jumps from a ? to it's : or vice versa.
> Maybe there should be one.  Maybe somebody, somewhere, has
> implemented one, and will jump in here with a URL pointing to the
> source code.
> 
> The thing is, though, how useful would this command be?  Programmers
> tend not to nest these conditional expressions very much.  The
> command would have to bound to a key sequence, something like C-c :
> (that's "control-c colon").  By the time you've typed that in, you
> could just as well have found the colon by interactive search by
> typing C-s :.
> 

And it's probably not straightforward (for either case), you might have
 (x > 4) ? weeble::kerplunk(funky::gibbon ? whoop : holler()) : foible::gibber::eugh();

Robert
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