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  Re: Highlighting program variables instead of keywords? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-27 13:38 +0000

#64859 — Re: Highlighting program variables instead of keywords?

On 27/01/2014 01:46, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> What it is doing is color coding user-supplied identifiers, with different
>> color for each one. I found that confusing to read.
>
> I think it would take some time to get used to, and I don't think it
> would be the only way I'd like to view my program.
>
> I think an interactive pylint (or pyflakes or frosty) type capability
> would be useful, highlighting a subset of the messages it produces,
> like variables which were assigned but never used, or using undefined
> variables. It might be best supported by actually running the checker
> in the background, then using its messages to direct where to
> highlight suspect bits of code.
>
> Skip
>

Pydev uses pylint interactively, must have saved me hours by flagging up 
(potential) problems up as I type.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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