brace matching in VS

[bruppel1]

So my workplace is looking to upgrade a few machines from some really ancient compilers to a modern compiler.

I have been using Intel Fortran for a while so I recommended it. They performed a survey of the options and they have found that some options have a feature where, as one types an opening or closingparentheses, the matched closing or opening parentheses would be highlighted.

This is a serious feature, I didn't think it existed because if it did, Intel would have it. It wouldcertainly save me some headaches. Is this supposed to be part of the product and I just haven't found the configuration? If not, it would be a top priority in my opinion.

Other features such as automatically providing information on intrinsics and variable inputs to intrinsics are also not present. I get the impression that these features are present on many other environments but not intel fortran.

I'm sorry if this forum is not a great place to put feature requests, but I guess the first step for me is to be certain that the feature doesn't exist.

[Darrell]

Photran the Eclipse IDE plug-in that comes with their Parallel Tools C++/Fortran development environment does what you describe when I put the cursor next to a paren it highlights the matching one. Photran also includes advanced refactoring and it is a free download. I installed CygWin gfortran too as a nice supplement to Microsoft Visual C++ / Intel Fortran. We're finding the Eclipse editor and outline tab view superior while the gnu fortran aimed at students using the supercomputer has clearer error messages. Since it is free and coexists with Intel, we're now using them both and the code is better off for it. It has a more strict interpretation of the f90 standard like using .eqv. instead of .eq. for logical comparisons.