by scjr on 4/7/13, 5:35 AM
It might be better to use variations in the background color. It may feel more natural to do so and it would allow normal syntax highlighting alongside scope highlighting.
by wavesounds on 4/7/13, 7:29 AM
by necolas on 4/7/13, 6:08 AM
Ever since watching that Crockford talk, I've wanted to try this out as a Vim plugin.
by dag11 on 4/7/13, 5:34 AM
This is great.
Idea: Implement loose "syntax" highlighting over the scope highlighting by bolding syntax keywords instead of highlighting them. Perhaps also slightly change the brightness of certain syntax keywords.
by druska on 4/7/13, 5:28 AM
Now we just need a Sublime Text plugin for this.
by VeejayRampay on 4/8/13, 2:28 AM
That's excellent. A nice variation around this that I've been keen on for a long time and have been wanting to see in modern IDEs is using 3D (or drop shadows) to simulate the nesting of blocks/closures/scopes and give the programmer an instant understanding of the different levels and depths.
by Vivtek on 4/7/13, 9:39 AM
This is probably one of those things that's really effective if you have working color vision, right?
by TheFuntastic on 4/7/13, 7:57 AM
Can anyone point to which particular crockford talk this was inspired by? I've had the idea for scope highlighting bashing around my head for a while now, would love to know more.
by mateuszf on 4/7/13, 3:43 PM
Actually Intellij Idea has the same concept, here it is working in HTML:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/456905/idea.pngI think it would be great if they added it to JS, with their powerful syntax parsing it would be probably trivial to do.
Edit: probably works in their php, django and rails ide-s.
by macca321 on 4/7/13, 11:58 AM
by ebiester on 4/7/13, 7:11 AM
I think this would make a lot of sense for Lisp or Clojure, at least when starting out.
by efnx on 4/7/13, 7:02 PM
Someone should abstract this out (for an arbitrary number of languages) into a program that would provide annotations for vim or emacs or...
by phy6 on 4/7/13, 1:26 PM
Wow, I'd love to have this in a Java IDE. I often have to deal with reverse engineering amateurish code in many 1000 line classes.
by seanp2k2 on 4/7/13, 1:21 PM
What if it changed based on cursor position?
by curiousdannii on 4/7/13, 6:36 AM
It doesn't seem to handle comments correctly. I need to delete all mine to make it work.
