On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > The way those highlights work, you are going to see either one or the > other and I think it gets more confusing when the paren highlights > obscure the error highlights (indeed, we have had PRs in the past > claiming that the error highlighting was broken when the priorities > were reversed). > > Unless you have an idea on how to show both?
What I was thinking was doing something like this: 1. Say there is a section that is highlighted like this (foo (bar (baz))) ;; (this is not complicated but imagine that it is) 2. The highlighter is highlighting the whole in ERR_COLOR. 3. And you need to fix something and you need to put the cursor in the right place. Of course I can't reproduce the situation that made me think of this hence the simple example. Anyway you want paren highlighting. 4. There is a some color already defined for highlighting matching parens MP_COLOR. Error highlighting won't use this. 5. Instead it would make MP_ERR_COLOR which is ERR_COLOR but take down the value (the V in HSV I looked it up) so that it is still clearly an error, but there is some visual distinction. Maybe this is an edge case? I can't even create a situation where this makes sense. But anyway the idea is that it is clearly an error, but there is a subtle difference to see paren background highlighting. Just an idea. I would code it up but it would take me a week. That said I would be happy to try. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
