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| Habi |
Posted - Jul 09 2009 : 4:20:26 PM
Hello,
I have the following feature request:
I would like to have the possibility to highlight several words in different colors simultaneously. See this screenshot of a GVim session for an example (wResult and fBufferLocked are marked).
In GVim I use this feature very often to get a quick overview where which variable or function is used. I find this very helpful to understand code. Using different colors allows seeing very fast how variables and function are interacting with each other.
The idea is the following:
If the user presses a specific shortcut key the word under the cursor is highlighted with a background color. If the user moves the cursor over another word and presses the shortcut key, this word will also be highlighted, but with a different background color. And so on.
If the cursor is over an already highlighted word and the user presses the shortcut key then the word is un-highlighted.
I know that VAX has a similar feature, find references. But this allows just to highlight one variable/function.
What are your thoughts?
Greetings
Habi
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| feline |
Posted - Jul 10 2009 : 3:55:48 PM
If you turn on:
VA Options -> Advanced -> Display -> Highlight find results
you can highlight a second word in a different colour, which can be configured via:
IDE tools menu -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors -> Display items = VA X Find Result
And you can also turn on:
VA Options -> Advanced -> Refactoring -> Automatically highlight references to symbol under cursor
which allows you to highlight a 3rd symbol in yet another colour. |
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