Functional vs. Decoration Styles (was: C99 highlighting)

Thorsten Haude yoo at vranx.de
Thu Jan 3 13:41:06 CET 2008


Hi,

* A.V.Kuznetsov wrote (2007-11-28 22:30):
>Tony Balinski <ajbj at free.fr> wrote:
>> It would have been nicer to have used decent picks from the built-in styles
>> which give "functional" names to different highlighting, rather than colors.
>> Still, having all the recognition regexes is great.
>
>Tony, thank you for the comment.
>
>I prefer "decoration" names instead the "functional" ones
>since the last can lead to mishmash.

True, the still greater problem arises when the two paradigm are
mixed. As it is, NEdit uses functional styles; this has advantages as
pointed out by your comment in Niki:
>The new coloring is designed for the #e0d5be background color.


Thorsten
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