On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:31:49 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > My son sent me a link to an essay about highlighting program data > instead of keywords: > > https://medium.com/p/3a6db2743a1e/ > > I think this might have value, especially if to could bounce back and > forth between both schemes.
Hmmm, I'm not convinced, but then I wasn't convinced by syntax highlighting either until I had used it for a while. (I still think it's a nice-to-have rather than a must-have.) Seems to me that beyond a dozen or so variables, the colours won't be distinctive enough to get much benefit. Especially if similar names get similar colours, e.g. the name "handle_process" and the typo "handle_prosess" will be barely distinguishable. In a well-designed program, most variables will appear in a fairly limited number of places, possibly in only a single function or method, so in even a fairly small project you might have a few dozen distinct variables, each of which might appear only three or five times. > Is anyone aware of tools like this for > Python? Bonus points for pointers to an Emacs implementation. Sorry, can't help you. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
