How to follow parentheses and bracket pairs in decompilation window?

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hi

i’ve been wondering if there’s a possibility in IDA to follow or close loop brackets like:

while ( 1 ){

  //tons of stuff

}

another situation is having a chain of function calls after each other that have many parameters, with data types behind each var, its really hard to keep track of things by eye.

navigation in big chunks of code is killing me.

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See Igor’s tip of the week #112: Matching braces – Hex Rays (it’s been added to the context menu since the post).

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so there is no possibility to close the braces? like in Visual studio? this would help a lot to hide unwanted code. yet better to have possibility of implementing user defined braces to hide a chunk of code in main scope of a function.

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This is possible too, see Igor’s tip of the week #100: Collapsing pseudocode parts – Hex Rays

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The description is a bit unclear, but perhaps this plugin will help: hexinlay - Hex-Rays Plugin Repo

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