Well, they didn' t like that much I can tell you.

[venta]

A quick question for Visual Studio users (with an ancillary part for anyone who writes C/C++/possibly Java/possibly others). Throughout the following, I mean {} or () by "brackets" :)

Is there an option anywhere in Visual Studio which I can set which means that when I highlight/hover over a bracket, it will in some way highlight or indicate its matching friend ? Yes, I know when you first close your brackets they're in bold text, but that goes away as soon as you start typing something else.

I just asked a VS user here, and he (a) had no idea and (b) seemed baffled I'd want that. Now, up until this recent enforced flirtation with VS I've written C/C++ exclusively in Emacs. Which allows you to set all kinds of different manners of highlighting for brackets. I find it phenomenally useful and am currently boggled that any serious text editor intended for programming doesn't offer this.

So... is this a reasonable thing to want to, or a strange quirk of mine bred by too much use of Emacs ? And, more importantly, can I make VS do it ?

Irrelevantly, just because I want to know:

[Poll #1028846]

Comments

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I'd call it the mantissa, since that is what I think its name is, but I don't think that I've ever had a conversation about the implementation details of floating point numbers.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I managed the same conversation about them three times this afternoon. pm215 correctly said mantissa, but the other two people (and I) all independently said "er... the other bit". I wondered if that was common but, by the looks of things, it isn't.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Maybe your friends lit just has a particularly weird vocabulary.

[pm215]

I can't remember anything else about floating point (like how you actually put the sign and the exponent and the mantissa together to make a number, for instance); I just remember the field names :-)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

That's encapsulation for you.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

I'm not 100% certain of my answer, as I don't discuss floating point all that often at the moment, and skimmed the options (and potentially reminded myself of the term) before reading the question.