Can put a highlighter to mark which parentheses you forgot?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.