Looks like a leading " turns off highlighting as well ... and the
highlighting is turned off in the expression(s) *BEFORE* the syntax
error which is not very useful ... I may not notice that the syntax
highlighting has turned off until I have typed quite a few a characters
and with the whole block white I cannot find the starting point of the
error ... was it the leading " or an accidental [ ... I find myself
having to parse Smalltalk code again ... something I haven't had to do
for years (maybe even decades) :)
Dale
On 8/7/16 4:57 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote:
when I make certain syntax errors while editting a method the syntax
highlighting goes all white on me ... I seem to recall that in the
past the syntax highlighter would start showing red at the point of
the syntax error ... and in this case the whole method is white and I
have to guess where my error was --- attached a png --- I used to be
able to depend upon the syntax highlighter to not only catch the
syntax error (turning white indicates that the highlighter knows I
made a booboo) but show me the point at which things stopped making
sense ... ummatched brackets is pretty common and I would recognize
that the brackets were mis-matched in the past ... now the whole thing
goes white and I have to work much harder ...
Dale
