[plt-scheme] New syntax colorer and parenthesis highlighter have arrived
For those of you following DrScheme in cvs, I have just exp tagged my
modifications to DrScheme for on-the-fly syntax coloring and
parenthesis highlighting.
The on-the-fly syntax coloring is lexically based, which means that
identifiers, comments, strings, parentheses, etc. can all be colored
differently. Furthermore, the coloring is always accurate and it
operates in the background so major lexical changes (such as opening a
string) will eventually display correctly without interfering with the
interactive session.
Unlike the "Check Syntax" coloring tool, the lexical colorer cannot
determine whether an identifier is a datum, variable or macro call. In
an effort to approximate some of this support, identifiers are colored
as keywords if they appear in the indenting lists
(Preferences->Editing->Indenting). Also unlike "Check Syntax", the
lexical colorer can correctly identify comments.
This is only the first half of the integration. The following
improvements still need to be made:
1) Parenthesis sensitive operations such as indenting and sexp
transposing still use the old paren matcher.
2) While the persistent paren highlighting uses my new system, the
matching paren flashes still use the old paren matcher.
3) Various things that use color in DrScheme (Check Syntax, test
coverage) interfere with the coloring my tool does.
If you don't like the coloring, you can turn it off from the
preferences dialog under: Editing->Colors->Scheme Color and still have
the improved paren matching. The colors used by the colorer can also
be changed from there.
I welcome any feedback.
-Scott Owens