Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

[Simon Ward]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote:
>Even better than simply highlighting is (IMO) a thing called "Rainbow 
>Braces" or "Bracket Pair Colorization" I recently learned about: both 
>braces of a matching pair get the same color, while other pairs get 
>other colors. I have to say I like it quite a lot. It's in VS Code 
>these days; possible there are implementations or extensions for other 
>editors and IDEs as well.

VS Code also supports ‘semantic highlighting’: Instead of simply 
highlighting syntax, highlight the same identifiers in the same colours, 
with the aim of helping you see them through the flow of the code.

Simon
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