I was about to ask for the same feature, and wondered even why it wasn't there to begin with. The two main languages I program in (Fortran and Ruby) don't use brackets (or only brackets for Ruby) for code blocks, and although I can get indenting to work OK with indentNextLines, I can't get "end" to jump back to the previous indentation level. This can get a bit silly since in Ruby { ... } and do ... end have exactly the same semantics, but I can't get the Ruby mode to make them behave the same.

Although allowing regexes in indent*Brackets would be great, you could achieve the same by adding a property "jumpBack" (or some meaningful name) which together with indentNextLines would work as a pair, just like the indent*Brackets properties do. This proposal would fit if someone has some reason not to change the behaviour of the indent*Brackets properties.

It would be *very* great if this feature was accepted, as it is the *very only* thing I lack in jEdit. If it gets adopted, jEdit will have become, as far as I am concerned, the *perfect* editor .

Thanks in advance!

Christophe Grandsire (anonymous only because I haven't created an account yet).

ruby has blocks such as:

begin
  code
  code
end

I've been trying to get this to indent properly, with no luck yet.