[racket] How to get paren highlighting with online compilation highlighting too?

Okay, well one not-so-beautiful thing. Try this program:

#lang racket
(+ 1 #f)

You get the grey and the red in exactly the same place (and only in that place).

Robby

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> This seems to work well for the basic grey and the two "shades of X" color
> schemes. For the other color schemes, I've just left things as they are, but
> if someone wants to figure out better colors that achieve similar effects,
> that'd be welcome.
>
> (The tricky thing is that you have to figure out what color to draw for
> color N such that all of the previous colors drawn and then combined with
> color N will yield the color that you really want.)
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Thursday, November 29, 2012, Robby Findler wrote:
>>
>> I think that makes sense. Indeed, I could arrange for the highlights
>> to be drawn first (before the text) and use non-1 alphas to achieve
>> this affect when highlights are layered. Let me think more about this
>> and I'll give it a try at some point.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Robby Findler
>> > <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> >> The way those highlights work, you are going to see either one or the
>> >> other and I think it gets more confusing when the paren highlights
>> >> obscure the error highlights (indeed, we have had PRs in the past
>> >> claiming that the error highlighting was broken when the priorities
>> >> were reversed).
>> >>
>> >> Unless you have an idea on how to show both?
>> >
>> > What I was thinking was doing something like this:
>> > 1. Say there is a section that is highlighted like this (foo (bar
>> > (baz))) ;; (this is not complicated but imagine that it is)
>> > 2. The highlighter is highlighting the whole in ERR_COLOR.
>> > 3. And you need to fix something and you need to put the cursor in the
>> > right place. Of course I can't reproduce the situation that made me
>> > think of this hence the simple example. Anyway you want paren
>> > highlighting.
>> > 4. There is a some color already defined for highlighting matching
>> > parens MP_COLOR. Error highlighting won't use this.
>> > 5. Instead it would make MP_ERR_COLOR which is ERR_COLOR but take down
>> > the value (the V in HSV I looked it up) so that it is still clearly an
>> > error, but there is some visual distinction.
>> >
>> > Maybe this is an edge case? I can't even create a situation where this
>> > makes sense.
>> >
>> > But anyway the idea is that it is clearly an error, but there is a
>> > subtle difference to see paren background highlighting.
>> >
>> > Just an idea. I would code it up but it would take me a week. That
>> > said I would be happy to try.