Viewing and defining begin/end pairs – Slick EDIT V3.3 User Manual

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To place the cursor on the opposite end of the structure when the cursor is on a begin or end keyword
pair, press Ctrl+] (find_matching_paren command or from the menu click Navigate

→

Go to Matching

Parenthesis). The find_matching_paren command supports matching parenthesis pairs { }, [ ] and ( ).

Tip

For Python, SlickEdit

Core supports the matching of the colon (:) token and the end of context.

See

Begin/End Structure Matching for Python

for more information.

Viewing and Defining Begin/End Pairs

Use the

Extension Options Dialog

to view or define the begin/end pairs for any language. To access this

dialog, click Window

→

Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click

the File Extension Setup setting. On the Extension Options dialog, select the extension you wish to work
with from the Extension drop-down list, then select the

Advanced Tab

In the Begin/end pairs text field, specify the pairs in a format similar to a regular expression.

Note

This text box is unavailable for languages that have special begin/end matching built-in.

The examples below illustrate the syntax for defining the begin/end pairs. The begin and end pair match-
ing option is case-sensitive by default. Append ;I to ignore case.

Example 1

(begin),(case)|(end);|

The above begin/end pairs are for the Pascal language. The Pascal language requires a more sophistic-
ated expression. This expression indicates the keywords begin or case start a block and the keyword
end terminates the block. The , (comma) is used to specify multiple begins or multiple ends. The | operat-
or is used to separate begins from ends.

Example 2

(#ifdef),(#ifndef),(#if)|(#endif)

The above pairs are for the C language. The C language has the added complication that #if is a sub-
string of #ifdef. Due to the implementation of begin/end matching, #ifdef must appear before #if.

More settings for begin/end pairs can be found on the Formatting Options dialog specific to the extension
you are working with. From the main menu, click Window

→

Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click

General in the tree, then double-click the File Extension Setup setting. On the Extension Options dialog,
select the extension you wish to work with from the Extension drop-down list, then click the Options but-
ton. See the individual language sections in the chapter

Chapter 7, Language-Specific Editing

for more in-

formation about these options.

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