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Please describe what are you missing or wanting to be improved
Recently I read a new syntax coloring technique for programing languages. Instead of highlighting grammar, highlight the things you are likely to mistake. So make sure strcpy and strncpy are easily distinguishable by their color. It would be cool to apply this to immediate values in assembly and the ? command.
For example, it is difficult to distinguish between 0x9d343f8b318614d1 and 0x9d345f8b318614d1. I don't even read that number all the way when I see it, I won't recognize it if I see it again later in code. If later the result of a math operation (from ? cmd) is 0x9d343f8b318614d1, I won't remember the significance of the number. Applying a unique color to similar numbers would help the user remember if they had seen the number before. It would make it easy to see if the same number is used a lot in large chunks of code, or if numbers vary slightly.
Initial implementation could just be a simple hash of the immediate, then index that value from an accepted color space.
** If anyone knows the article I am speaking of, please link it. I can't find it anymore and I would like them to receive credit for the idea.
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Please describe what are you missing or wanting to be improved
Recently I read a new syntax coloring technique for programing languages. Instead of highlighting grammar, highlight the things you are likely to mistake. So make sure
strcpyandstrncpyare easily distinguishable by their color. It would be cool to apply this to immediate values in assembly and the?command.For example, it is difficult to distinguish between 0x9d343f8b318614d1 and 0x9d345f8b318614d1. I don't even read that number all the way when I see it, I won't recognize it if I see it again later in code. If later the result of a math operation (from
?cmd) is 0x9d343f8b318614d1, I won't remember the significance of the number. Applying a unique color to similar numbers would help the user remember if they had seen the number before. It would make it easy to see if the same number is used a lot in large chunks of code, or if numbers vary slightly.Initial implementation could just be a simple hash of the immediate, then index that value from an accepted color space.
** If anyone knows the article I am speaking of, please link it. I can't find it anymore and I would like them to receive credit for the idea.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: