"bracket" highlighting

[visuality]

Does anyone know if there is a way to get Dreamweaver to highlight bracket and
parenthetic pairs? I like using Dreamweaver and I find that it's still one of
the best editors for multiple formats. The syntax coloring is especially well
done. Unfortunately, as I've been writing PHP scripts with higher complexity,
I find that the ability to find bracket pairs for control structures is really
important. Pretty much every other editor that supports PHP has this feature.
Where is it in Dreamweaver? I'm using MX2004, by the way.

[Randy Edmunds]

Use Edit > Balance Braces (Ctrl+')

HTH,
Randy

> Does anyone know if there is a way to get Dreamweaver to highlight bracket and
> parenthetic pairs?

[visuality]

Ah. Thanks. Weird. Rather than highlight bracket mates, it highlights
everything in between. I guess it does the trick, but it's not quite that
useful. I'm going to submit to the wishlist that MM include a feature that
does what most other editors do: when you place the cusor next to a bracket or
parenthesis, he and his made are automatically highlighted.

[Randy Edmunds]

When I first saw it, I thought the same thing. But then I played around
with it and I discovered that this is more powerful than the "move IP to
other brace" method.

The cool think is that you can place the IP inside a piece of code and
then keep hitting Ctrl+' to quickly balance the braces of the next
parent. This is very helpful for very complex conditional statements or
code blocks. Try doing that with the "move IP to other brace" method.
You have to do lots of keyboard navigation to go from child to parent. PITA.

At any point you can hit either the left or right keyboard navigation
arrows to go to either the beginning or end brace.

Randy

> Ah. Thanks. Weird. Rather than highlight bracket mates, it highlights
> everything in between. I guess it does the trick, but it's not quite that
> useful. I'm going to submit to the wishlist that MM include a feature that
> does what most other editors do: when you place the cusor next to a bracket or
> parenthesis, he and his made are automatically highlighted.
>