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by PhilippaC
Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Highlighting doesn't know characters aren't strings of chars
Replies: 2
Views: 302

Given that escapes're being handled already, there's already a notion of token or character literal involved as well as sourcetext characters - it's perfectly viable for highlighting to recognise exactly one of those in characters as opposed to strings.
by PhilippaC
Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Highlighting doesn't know characters aren't strings of chars
Replies: 2
Views: 302

Highlighting doesn't know characters aren't strings of chars

Syntax highlighting doesn't seem to know that characters (unlike strings) consist of exactly one character. This is a problem in languages where ' is both a valid part of an identifier and the character delimiter - for example, it's not uncommon to see identifiers like f, f', f'' etc in Haskell ...
by PhilippaC
Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:13 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Workspace/Document Selector improvements
Replies: 1
Views: 440

Workspace/Document Selector improvements

Could we have the option to assign a 'root' folder to workspaces, and then show relative paths from that root in the document selector? I'm working on a project split into folders with some filenames recurring pretty frequently, and seeing multiple "Foo.Bar" entries in the document selector doesn't ...