Variables font color in editor

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Grovkillen
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Variables font color in editor

Post by Grovkillen » Tue Sep 27, 2016 11:12 am

Hi,

Would it be possible to have variables in bold/color etc. in the Editor? Kinda like how internal variables are bold and brown?

It is sometimes hard to tell what is a variable and what is appendix / prefix.

See example below:

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Let>VAR_NAME=Text
Let>NEW_VAR=%VAR_NAME%appendix_text
In the example the text/appendix_text is the same font/color as VAR_NAME/NEW_VAR... hard to tell the difference.

What do others think?
Let>ME=%Script%

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Re: Variables font color in editor

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:36 am

I've added this to the wish list, however, it may only be possible to show variables within % % symbols, as finding a parsing rule which will locate all possible placements of variables is tricky, given that with Macro Scheduler you don't have to specify a literal string and a variable any differently.
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Re: Variables font color in editor

Post by Grovkillen » Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:29 am

Only between % would work for me. 8)
Let>ME=%Script%

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