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digitalmars.D.ide - [VisualD] Type highlighting.

reply BearishMushroom <bearishmushroom outlook.com> writes:
In a thread posted about a month and a half ago asking if VisualD 
could support type highlighting it was said that it "should be 
possible", although many false classifications would be expected.

I would really appreciate if something like this could be added 
as an option even with false classifications, highlighting really 
helps me navigate code much quicker.

While I realize Mono-D can do this to some extent too, I already 

would love to be able to feel as comfortable in it using D.
Aug 20 2016
parent reply Cauterite <cauterite gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 21 August 2016 at 04:00:09 UTC, BearishMushroom wrote:
 
When you say 'type-highlighting', do you mean the highlighting of user-defined types? It would certainly be difficult because anywhere you have alias foo = x; foo could be a type, a function, an expression, a template… But nevertheless I suspect it's not impossible to do this with great accuracy.
Aug 21 2016
parent Basile B. <b2.temp gmx.com> writes:
On Sunday, 21 August 2016 at 07:39:10 UTC, Cauterite wrote:
 On Sunday, 21 August 2016 at 04:00:09 UTC, BearishMushroom 
 wrote:
 
When you say 'type-highlighting', do you mean the highlighting of user-defined types? It would certainly be difficult because anywhere you have alias foo = x; foo could be a type, a function, an expression, a template… But nevertheless I suspect it's not impossible to do this with great accuracy.
Highlighting is often based on a simplified lexer. To highlight accurately a type a bit of parsing is necessary. But this topic gives me the idea of "phobos style" type highlighting which could work without parsing, e.g when an identifier is found, it's either a keyword, if the first letter is upper case than it's a type otherwise a user identifier. I think I'm gonna try this in Coedit. It should be easy to add the Visual D too.
Aug 27 2016