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    Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting programming wordsandbuttons.online
    calvin avatar via calvin 4 years ago |
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      kghose avatar kghose 4 years ago | link

      I really like this! I pasted in a completely off the wall code: a CWL document. CWL is basically YAML (or equivalent JSON ughh). I have YAML syntax checking on, and it’s ok, but very predictable. This highlighter, via the use of multiple colors is quite good at making different text close by stick out. At least on the webpage the highlighting was pretty good!

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        minimax avatar minimax 4 years ago | link

        Excellent choice of license, too.

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      jxy avatar jxy 4 years ago | link

      Something from couple of years ago: https://medium.com/p/3a6db2743a1e/

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      whjms avatar whjms 4 years ago | link

      This could be useful to help catch basic typos. For example the fields in if this.Latitude == that.Longitude will be coloured differently.

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        golergka avatar golergka 4 years ago | link

        Wouldn’t it be something a sane type system could take care of?

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      vakradrz avatar vakradrz 4 years ago | link

      I did something similar years ago for SQL that had many literal guids in it. I’m looking forward to trying this out on some real code!