On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> The only use I can see for this is to track the usage of a particular name, >> but that would be better done by just highlighting one name at a time. > > In SciTE, I can put the cursor on a word and hit Ctrl-F3 to find other > instances of that word. If that's not enough, following it up with > Ctrl-Home, F3 will find the first instance of it, and if the program > follows the Define-Before-Use principle, that'll be the definition. > That's usually enough. > > ChrisA
That said, though, I grew up without syntax highlighting of any sort, and didn't think it particularly important; but now that I have editors with all those sorts of features, I do find them handy. So it's possible that a system like this would be of value if once the programmer gets used to it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
