Re:The Definitive Guide to Syntax Highlighting
by noir_lord on Sunday September 28, 2014 @11:56AM
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An interesting and very clear article.
As someone who started in an era when syntax highlighting didn't exist (at least on the machines and tools I was using at the time) I personally like it a great deal.
I found something the other day in the intellij ide's that I really liked (and had not seen before though I may have missed it) which was the ability to highlight the variable under cursor contextually (different for reads and writes).
It was a small change but when running through code you've not used/seen before I've found it a nice little touch at getting a good grasp of whats going on with variables.
As someone who started in an era when syntax highlighting didn't exist (at least on the machines and tools I was using at the time) I personally like it a great deal.
I found something the other day in the intellij ide's that I really liked (and had not seen before though I may have missed it) which was the ability to highlight the variable under cursor contextually (different for reads and writes).
Like so http://i.imgur.com/u9UkXPN.png
It was a small change but when running through code you've not used/seen before I've found it a nice little touch at getting a good grasp of whats going on with variables.