A general brace matching tagger for Visual Studio 2010
I haven’t perfected it yet, but here is a fairly general brace matching tagger that seems to work very well. It relies on the classifier for the content type properly tagging comments and literals with classification types derived from PredefinedClassificationTypeNames.Comment
and PredefinedClassificationTypeNames.Literal
, which any decent classifier will do.
This example really shows a big improvement in Visual Studio 2010. None of my Visual Studio 2008 language services have brace matching this effective and they’re getting jealous.
Here is an example of providing a brace matcher for a “java” content type:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 | namespace JavaLanguageService { using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel.Composition; using CustomLanguageService.Text; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Classification; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Tagging; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities; [Export(typeof(IViewTaggerProvider))] [ContentType(Constants.JavaContentType)] [TagType(typeof(TextMarkerTag))] public sealed class JavaBraceMatchingTaggerProvider : IViewTaggerProvider { [Import] public IClassifierAggregatorService AggregatorService; public ITagger<T> CreateTagger<T>(ITextView textView, ITextBuffer buffer) where T : ITag { if (textView == null) return null; var aggregator = AggregatorService.GetClassifier(buffer); var pairs = new KeyValuePair<char, char>[] { new KeyValuePair<char, char>('(', ')'), new KeyValuePair<char, char>('{', '}'), new KeyValuePair<char, char>('[', ']') }; return new BraceMatchingTagger(textView, buffer, aggregator, pairs) as ITagger<T>; } } } |
And here is the brace matching tagger. Depending on the characteristics of your language, you may be able to use this will little to no modification.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 | namespace CustomLanguageService.Text { using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Collections.ObjectModel; using System.Diagnostics.Contracts; using System.Linq; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Language.StandardClassification; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Classification; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Tagging; internal sealed class BraceMatchingTagger : ITagger<TextMarkerTag> { public event EventHandler<SnapshotSpanEventArgs> TagsChanged; public BraceMatchingTagger(ITextView textView, ITextBuffer sourceBuffer, IClassifier aggregator, IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<char, char>> matchingCharacters) { Contract.Requires<ArgumentNullException>(textView != null); Contract.Requires<ArgumentNullException>(sourceBuffer != null); Contract.Requires<ArgumentNullException>(aggregator != null); Contract.Requires<ArgumentNullException>(matchingCharacters != null); this.TextView = textView; this.SourceBuffer = sourceBuffer; this.Aggregator = aggregator; this.MatchingCharacters = matchingCharacters.ToList().AsReadOnly(); this.TextView.Caret.PositionChanged += Caret_PositionChanged; this.TextView.LayoutChanged += TextView_LayoutChanged; } public ITextView TextView { get; private set; } public ITextBuffer SourceBuffer { get; private set; } public IClassifier Aggregator { get; private set; } public ReadOnlyCollection<KeyValuePair<char, char>> MatchingCharacters { get; private set; } private SnapshotPoint? CurrentChar { get; set; } private static bool IsInCommentOrLiteral(IClassifier aggregator, SnapshotPoint point, PositionAffinity affinity) { Contract.Requires(aggregator != null); // TODO: handle affinity SnapshotSpan span = new SnapshotSpan(point, 1); var classifications = aggregator.GetClassificationSpans(span); var relevant = classifications.FirstOrDefault(classificationSpan => classificationSpan.Span.Contains(point)); if (relevant == null || relevant.ClassificationType == null) return false; return relevant.ClassificationType.IsOfType(PredefinedClassificationTypeNames.Comment) || relevant.ClassificationType.IsOfType(PredefinedClassificationTypeNames.Literal); } private bool IsMatchStartCharacter(char c) { return MatchingCharacters.Any(pair => pair.Key == c); } private bool IsMatchCloseCharacter(char c) { return MatchingCharacters.Any(pair => pair.Value == c); } private char GetMatchCloseCharacter(char c) { return MatchingCharacters.First(pair => pair.Key == c).Value; } private char GetMatchOpenCharacter(char c) { return MatchingCharacters.First(pair => pair.Value == c).Key; } private static bool FindMatchingCloseChar(SnapshotPoint start, IClassifier aggregator, char open, char close, int maxLines, out SnapshotSpan pairSpan) { pairSpan = new SnapshotSpan(start.Snapshot, 1, 1); ITextSnapshotLine line = start.GetContainingLine(); string lineText = line.GetText(); int lineNumber = line.LineNumber; int offset = start.Position - line.Start.Position + 1; int stopLineNumber = start.Snapshot.LineCount - 1; if (maxLines > 0) stopLineNumber = Math.Min(stopLineNumber, lineNumber + maxLines); int openCount = 0; while (true) { while (offset < line.Length) { char currentChar = lineText[offset]; // TODO: is this the correct affinity if (currentChar == close && !IsInCommentOrLiteral(aggregator, new SnapshotPoint(start.Snapshot, offset + line.Start.Position), PositionAffinity.Successor)) { if (openCount > 0) { openCount--; } else { pairSpan = new SnapshotSpan(start.Snapshot, line.Start + offset, 1); return true; } } // TODO: is this the correct affinity else if (currentChar == open && !IsInCommentOrLiteral(aggregator, new SnapshotPoint(start.Snapshot, offset + line.Start.Position), PositionAffinity.Successor)) { openCount++; } offset++; } // move on to the next line lineNumber++; if (lineNumber > stopLineNumber) break; line = line.Snapshot.GetLineFromLineNumber(lineNumber); lineText = line.GetText(); offset = 0; } return false; } private static bool FindMatchingOpenChar(SnapshotPoint start, IClassifier aggregator, char open, char close, int maxLines, out SnapshotSpan pairSpan) { pairSpan = new SnapshotSpan(start, start); ITextSnapshotLine line = start.GetContainingLine(); int lineNumber = line.LineNumber; int offset = start - line.Start - 1; // if the offset is negative, move to the previous line if (offset < 0) { lineNumber--; line = line.Snapshot.GetLineFromLineNumber(lineNumber); offset = line.Length - 1; } string lineText = line.GetText(); int stopLineNumber = 0; if (maxLines > 0) stopLineNumber = Math.Max(stopLineNumber, lineNumber - maxLines); int closeCount = 0; while (true) { while (offset >= 0) { char currentChar = lineText[offset]; // TODO: is this the correct affinity if (currentChar == open && !IsInCommentOrLiteral(aggregator, new SnapshotPoint(start.Snapshot, offset + line.Start.Position), PositionAffinity.Successor)) { if (closeCount > 0) { closeCount--; } else { pairSpan = new SnapshotSpan(line.Start + offset, 1); return true; } } // TODO: is this the correct affinity else if (currentChar == close && !IsInCommentOrLiteral(aggregator, new SnapshotPoint(start.Snapshot, offset + line.Start.Position), PositionAffinity.Successor)) { closeCount++; } offset--; } // move to the previous line lineNumber--; if (lineNumber < stopLineNumber) break; line = line.Snapshot.GetLineFromLineNumber(lineNumber); lineText = line.GetText(); offset = line.Length - 1; } return false; } public IEnumerable<ITagSpan<TextMarkerTag>> GetTags(NormalizedSnapshotSpanCollection spans) { if (spans.Count == 0) yield break; // don't do anything if the current SnapshotPoint is not initialized or at the end of the buffer if (!CurrentChar.HasValue || CurrentChar.Value.Position >= CurrentChar.Value.Snapshot.Length) yield break; // hold on to a snapshot of the current character var currentChar = CurrentChar.Value; if (IsInCommentOrLiteral(Aggregator, currentChar, TextView.Caret.Position.Affinity)) yield break; // if the requested snapshot isn't the same as the one the brace is on, translate our spans to the expected snapshot currentChar = currentChar.TranslateTo(spans[0].Snapshot, PointTrackingMode.Positive); // get the current char and the previous char char currentText = currentChar.GetChar(); // if current char is 0 (beginning of buffer), don't move it back SnapshotPoint lastChar = currentChar == 0 ? currentChar : currentChar - 1; char lastText = lastChar.GetChar(); SnapshotSpan pairSpan = new SnapshotSpan(); if (IsMatchStartCharacter(currentText)) { char closeChar = GetMatchCloseCharacter(currentText); /* TODO: Need to improve handling of larger blocks. this won't highlight if the matching brace is more * than 1 screen's worth of lines away. Changing this to 10 * TextView.TextViewLines.Count seemed * to improve the situation. */ if (BraceMatchingTagger.FindMatchingCloseChar(currentChar, Aggregator, currentText, closeChar, TextView.TextViewLines.Count, out pairSpan)) { yield return new TagSpan<TextMarkerTag>(new SnapshotSpan(currentChar, 1), PredefinedTextMarkerTags.BraceHighlight); yield return new TagSpan<TextMarkerTag>(pairSpan, PredefinedTextMarkerTags.BraceHighlight); } } else if (IsMatchCloseCharacter(lastText)) { var open = GetMatchOpenCharacter(lastText); if (BraceMatchingTagger.FindMatchingOpenChar(lastChar, Aggregator, open, lastText, TextView.TextViewLines.Count, out pairSpan)) { yield return new TagSpan<TextMarkerTag>(new SnapshotSpan(lastChar, 1), PredefinedTextMarkerTags.BraceHighlight); yield return new TagSpan<TextMarkerTag>(pairSpan, PredefinedTextMarkerTags.BraceHighlight); } } } private void UpdateAtCaretPosition(CaretPosition caretPosition) { CurrentChar = caretPosition.Point.GetPoint(SourceBuffer, caretPosition.Affinity); if (!CurrentChar.HasValue) return; var t = TagsChanged; if (t != null) t(this, new SnapshotSpanEventArgs(new SnapshotSpan(SourceBuffer.CurrentSnapshot, 0, SourceBuffer.CurrentSnapshot.Length))); } private void TextView_LayoutChanged(object sender, TextViewLayoutChangedEventArgs e) { if (e.NewSnapshot != e.OldSnapshot) UpdateAtCaretPosition(TextView.Caret.Position); } private void Caret_PositionChanged(object sender, CaretPositionChangedEventArgs e) { UpdateAtCaretPosition(e.NewPosition); } } } |
Thanks, this is really handy for any syntax/language service. Just one thing though: where is the definition of PredefinedTextMarkerTags.BraceHighlight? And does this code have a license?
October 20th, 2013 at 3:53 pmI couldn’t figure out how to get a TextMarkerTag specifically for brace matching, but the following tag does put an outline rectangle around the brace/paren, just using the color of Operators instead of Brace matching.
public static readonly TextMarkerTag BraceHighlightTag = new TextMarkerTag(PredefinedClassificationTypeNames.Operator);
October 26th, 2013 at 7:41 pm