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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:

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Date: 2007-07-27 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Woo, that works. It highlights the block between the closing and opening brackets. Thanks - between you and [livejournal.com profile] mister_jack below I'm all sorted now.

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