Ability to ignore commented braces

[hillsc]

Using Ctrl+M to find matching pairs is very nice. A good enhancement to this would be to ignore braces in comments (if syntax highlighting is on, of course, since that's where the concept of a 'comment' is defined).

For example, this bit of perl:

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if ($foo eq 'bar') {
# if ($foo ne 'bar') {
  do($foo);
}

Currently, pressing Ctrl+M on the last curly brace matches it with a comment, not executable code. Worse, pressing Ctrl+M on that first curly brace typically gets even more unexpected results.

It'd be nice if it could ignore comments.

[jetwhiz]

I agree, this is about the only downfall of textpad compared to the other text editors out there. And that isn't the only problem ... also

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block {
 .... "string { etc" ... 
} 

doesn't work as it should. it detects the brace inside the string as a working code brace. Hopefully these will get updated in a future release.