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Finding brace, quote, bracket, and parenthesis balance in TextWrangler

The one thing I've never been able to figure out, until now, on TextWrangler is how to find the corresponding brace or quote or bracket or parenthesis that acts as a balance. For example if you have code like this:

[some func]

How do you find the starting [ that matches your closing ]. In this example it's pretty darn easy. But when you are doing with braces which can span many lines of code, this can be hard to figure out.

So the answer: double click on the brace or quote or bracket or parenthesis. When you do this, it will highlight everything that balances the element you just clicked on.
Rating: 100% positive, 1 Vote
Categories: TextWrangler editors shortcuts
Added: on Sep 16, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: textwrangler brace quote editor balance

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