AvalonEdit highlight matching characters

Question

Is there an easy way using Avalon edit to highlight matching brackets and other characters like {}""?

Answer 1

AvalonEdit can't do that on its own - you will have to write the feature yourself.

You will have to find the matching bracket yourself (which is no trivial task, if your language supports comments, string constants etc.). Then you will have to apply the transformation to the text (see this article, section Line Transformers), and of course remove it manually when it is no longer necessary.

Update:

The lead SharpDeveloper discusses it here: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/p/12352/33648.aspx http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/p/10312/28488.aspx