KDE/kdevelop/languages/cpp

[Kris Wong]

> It's a bit hard to figure out from your description (I guess I should
> try it out tonight) but if you are saying that every local variable
> has a different background color, then I definitely think that is too
> much "noise".
>
> IMHO:
> A single specific foreground color for all local variables would be
> nice (and also for member variables and globals, but using different
> colors) and
> A single background color for the selected variable would be
> extremely nice!
>
> I think that would strike a nice balance between "noise" and
> information. I certainly don't need different colors to distinguish
> variables such as "name" and "timeout" in a local context, the names
> are more than enough for that. But easily locating all occurrances of
> a specific variable by selecting is very very useful.
>
> // jens

I agree with all of the above.

Kris Wong