[R] R commandline editor question

[Ajay Narottam Shah]

> well ESS has such a facility.
> 
> However, I think Mathematica has a super scheme: unbalanced brackets 
> show up
> in red, making them obvious.
> 
> This is particularly good for spotting wrongly interleaved brackets, as 
> in
> 
> ([  blah di blah  )]
> 
> <note bracket closure is out of order>
> 
> in which case both opening braces are highlighted in red: and the 
> system won't
> accept a newline until the closures are all correctly matched.
> 
> Would anyone else find such a thing useful?
> 
> Could the ESS team make something like this happen?

ess is great, but I was asking about the R commandline. I tend to
write a lot of stuff on the fly at the R commandline.

Yes, colours are a great way to deal with this, and this feature
should ideally be in ESS.

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