find and display the opposite curly bracket in script editor

[patricia70]

Hi all,

in other developing platform there is an option where you can place the cursor on a curly bracket, then press a certain hotkey and it jumps to the relative opposite curly bracket. In Ninjatrader8 script editor I can put the cursor to a curly bracket and it will highlight the appropriate opposite curly bracket of a block. But this is helpful only in case where the curly brackets both are visible on the screen. Let's say you have a huge { } block, it needs to scroll down or up some pages to find the opposite curly bracket.

How can I access it quickly and see where it sits? is there a hotkey in Ninjascript editor?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello patricia70,

Thanks for your post.

There is no hotkey or quick way to see this in the Ninjascript editor. Edit - Incorrect statement, see posts 5 & 6 for keystroke solution

You may want to right mouse click on a script to access the Ninjascript editor properties and enable the "Show indentation lines", I know this is not what you are asking for but it may be helpful.

[patricia70]

thank you. It might be nice to have such a feature in ninjascript editor. Example: the hotkey % is by default used in vi editor in linux for this great aid.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello patricia70,

Thanks for your reply.

The Ninjascript editor is for us a purchased component and as such is not under our control to add features.

[hedgeplay]

Hi all,

in other developing platform there is an option where you can place the cursor on a curly bracket, then press a certain hotkey and it jumps to the relative opposite curly bracket.

How can I access it quickly and see where it sits? is there a hotkey in Ninjascript editor?

Great news! This feature is already built in.

Highlight your starting curly brace and press the two keys Ctrl and ] at the same time. Works for me.


"Place your cursor on the bracket you're trying to match (open or close) and press Ctrl+] (that's the Control key with a closing square bracket). Your cursor moves to the matching bracket. Pressing the key combination again takes you back to the bracket on which you started.

Hedgeplay

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello hedgeplay,

Thanks for your post.

I appreciate the reminder of those keystrokes.

For all, here is a link to the help guide where these editor keystroke short cuts can be found: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help..._shortcuts.htm

[patricia70]

hey Hedgeplay, this would be exactly what I'm asked for. Funny that you discovered this and the Ninjatrader support staff didn't know about it :-) however, it didn't work on my german keyboard so I tried all possible key and succesfully found the correct hotkey combination that works on german keyboard layouts.

The hotkey is CTRL + ´ key (this is the key left next to the backspace). I've done a screenshot that shows the two keys needed to be pressed.


@staff: make a note in your knowledgebase

GREAT hedgeplay, thanks a bunch !!!!!!!

Edit: Also thanks to Paul for pointing to the keyboard shortcut documentation. Found some more interesting and helpful hotkeys.