I'd like to add 1 use of color coding lines/blocks/blocks of characters :
conveying scope visibility information
In the editor panel, being able to see without looking that a used or member is
private, brings some extra info to the visual
feedback.
As a replacement, we put scope info in the variable names, but it could be better :
__aPrivateMember
_protected_
friendly_
and
public
If the "__aPrivateMember" was black characters on a yellow background, I would be
happy.
Alain Ravet
--- Don Appleman wrote :
Objet : [Eap-features] Color-coding changed lines
My previous IDE was Kawa. One of the features that was added late in that
product's life is color-coding in the left margin when lines are inserted
or modified. This color coding produced a sort of on-the-fly diff view of
the code versus the disk version. Saving changes would make all of the
color-coding go away.
I find this useful while editing, particularly if I'm moving around among
several files. It's also of great help when UnDo'ing a set of changes;
it's easier to anticipate the result of a specific UnDo.
Although IDEA saves my files transparently, it offers the "Reload From
Disk" option. The color coding could rely on the differences between the
version in the editor and the version available to reload from disk.
Thanks for the great IDE, by the way!
Don Appleman
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