[Geany-devel] Patch adding auto-close brackets, braces and string r1

[ioguix at free.fr]

Hi,

So I began to use geany enabling the "autoclosed chars". It is usefull, 
but sometime anoying...

So I believe we can make it a little bit more smart.

In a first step, when opening a brace (ie. ( { [ ), we could check if no 
closing brace already match it before auto-closing it. That what I tried 
to do in the attached patch.

In a second step, I think we could try to detect if we are already in a 
string before auto-closing quotes. Moreover, if we are indeed in a string 
we could auto-secape any quotes putted in. However, I think this 
should be configurable.

About these second step, I hadn't too much time to investigate the code, 
but:
- is it possible to actually know what is the current applied style ? 
- can we really test if we are actually in a in string whatever the 
current language style ?
- about the auto-escaping quotes, it would need some mechanism to exactly 
know how the current language style is actually escaping them (obviously C 
or SQL doesn't escape string in the same way)

Thanks for your next answer and review :)

-- 
Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
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