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reply Michelle Long <HappyDance321 gmail.com> writes:
For some languages the IDE will show info about a closing bracket 
so one knows how it is grouped.

The idea is that either a shadow comment is added or a popup when 
highlighted/selected is shown over the closing bracket which 
displays the first non-empty line above the opening bracket:

statement
{

} // statement

// statement is a shadow comment(not part of the source, grayed 
out a bit, or a popup)

Helps a lot with lots of nesting and one doesn't have to manually 
add them which isn't robust.
Oct 30 2018
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 30/10/2018 17:19, Michelle Long wrote:
 For some languages the IDE will show info about a closing bracket so one
 knows how it is grouped.
 
 The idea is that either a shadow comment is added or a popup when
 highlighted/selected is shown over the closing bracket which displays
 the first non-empty line above the opening bracket:
 
 statement
 {
 
 } // statement
 
 // statement is a shadow comment(not part of the source, grayed out a
 bit, or a popup)
 
 Helps a lot with lots of nesting and one doesn't have to manually add
 them which isn't robust.
 
Recent versions of VS also shows similar information when hovering the indentation guides. I've created an enhancement request: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19350
Nov 03 2018
parent Michelle Long <HappyDance321 gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 3 November 2018 at 08:17:50 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
 On 30/10/2018 17:19, Michelle Long wrote:
 For some languages the IDE will show info about a closing 
 bracket so one knows how it is grouped.
 
 The idea is that either a shadow comment is added or a popup 
 when highlighted/selected is shown over the closing bracket 
 which displays the first non-empty line above the opening 
 bracket:
 
 statement
 {
 
 } // statement
 
 // statement is a shadow comment(not part of the source, 
 grayed out a
 bit, or a popup)
 
 Helps a lot with lots of nesting and one doesn't have to 
 manually add them which isn't robust.
 
Recent versions of VS also shows similar information when hovering the indentation guides. I've created an enhancement request: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19350
Thanks. It helps reduce having to write unnecessary code just to be able to make programming easier. Reducing bloat like this goes a long way. Providing this meta info helps.
Nov 03 2018