The Definitive Guide to Syntax Highlighting

Re:The Definitive Guide to Syntax Highlighting by micampe on Sunday September 28, 2014 @01:07PM (#8380243)

This made me think that it would be useful to have different, easily switchable highlighting modes: syntax and symbols when I'm writing, structure when I'm reading code.

Or maybe syntax highlighting for the scope I'm in and structure for the rest.

I often use the folding/nesting indicators when reading code, it would be an extension of that.

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Re:The Definitive Guide to Syntax Highlighting by kndyry on Sunday September 28, 2014 @06:13PM (#8381054)

I've been using (and loving) something similar to this while switching modes between code and prose in vim [0]. In addition to changing how syntax highlighting, spellchecking and line breaks happen, there are some other interesting bits specific to prose; like formatting text for pasting into word processors, &c.

[0] http://alols.github.io/2012/11/07/writing-prose-with-vim/

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Re:The Definitive Guide to Syntax Highlighting by pacaro on Sunday September 28, 2014 @02:02PM (#8380416)

The editor Source Insight had/has this feature, code was in one of two modes, draft or preview. I think that the syntax algorithm was the same, but draft was fixed pitch, syntax colored only, whereas preview had proportional fonts, different sizes and styles in addition to color

I last used SourceInsight circa 2005 so I have no idea about its current status

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