On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 02:24:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I thought that *is* the color support that was added? If you're expecting IDE-style syntax highlighting, I think you're setting your expectations a little high for something that ostensibly was banged out in a couple of hours.
Nope, the dmd compiler will highlight code between `` in its outputted error messages. dmd already knows how to lex D code (obviously) and even has a highlighter for ddoc, so it just pipes it through that existing function.
Not all error messages had the `` around its code though. That's what Mike did in most his PRs.
