Hi all, i'm new to these forums but i'm using VAX from quite some time and i just love it, thank you for such a productive tool!
While being perfectly suited to my needs, one suggestion i would love would be to be able to switch on/off a capability consisting in a depth-based background color highlighting of all the text between nested brackets instead of just highlighting the brackets themselves, with the depth-level being adjustable between 0 (off/max_limit) and any supported depth level between 1 and max_limit.
Suppose you have some code looking like this:
iLogHeight = (int32_t)( log( (float_t)iHeight ) / log( 2.0f ) );
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
1 2 3 4 5 6
YYYY BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB YYYYYY BBBBBB Y
Y is yellow
B is blue
In a simple piece of code like the above with a depth setting of 2, the improvements at reading should be dramatically improved.
What do you think?
Depth-based nested brackets highlighting
Posted - Oct 11 2006 : 08:32:02 AM
we have experimented with this in the past, and to much highlighting can be distracting rather than helpful. still, this is in the list of things to have another look at.