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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Blue Brown Green Red Violet Yellow Message: Forum code is on. Html is off. [quote][i]Originally posted by jmihalicza[/i] [br]It seems the bolding only does a simple pattern matching rather than a deeper semantic analysis to find the identifiers to bold. Installing the newer version (thanks for the version check feature, that is cool) I tried to enable Max coloring options and faced the problem immediately. It is a frequent case that the name of local symbols match the name of members in different structures. I simplified the situation and made a test case: void* x; complex().x; At least in cases where the type of the member is different the bold is definitely unwanted. I also would like members with the same name in other structures unbolded even if the type is the same, because of the primary purpose of the feature in my understanding. I (would like to) use this feature to have a quick overview, to clearly see where the incoming parameters (and the local variables) are used. I would also like the possibility of visually differentiate these two kinds. An other approach could say that same name suggests the same concept, and therefore should be highlighted to show the possible logical connection. I don't like this approach, because it is simply not useful, and can fail more times than to be worth using, relying on it. Just checked the new features and found VA Outline. What an amazing stuff. How much I suffered of analyzing nested #if structures figuring out what happens. Great idea and it seems after 2-3 minutes that it will be my favorite view not only for preprocessing items but for general code structure. Again a very valuable addition. [/quote]   Check to include your profile signature. Check to subscribe to this topic.