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- From: frankred@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Martin Redington)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.c,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What would you like in a debugger?
- Message-ID: <10568@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 23:44:59 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.165055.19638@zooid.guild.org> <158@sc.sni.ie> <1992Aug24.190039.1906@nstn.ns.ca>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <1992Aug24.190039.1906@nstn.ns.ca> maceache@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tim Maceachern) writes:
- >I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but I would like a source
- >debugger to be smart enough to know what is code and what is (are)
- >comments. Then show the comments in a different colour than the
- >code. If you're using monochrome, sorry.
-
- The quickC for windows source editor is even better than this
- comments, strings, numbers etc. all appear in user-configurable
- colours. While this is fine if you are using only this, it tends
- to encourage bad habits, like extraneous comments, on the same
- line of code (hey, why have colour, if your not going to use it).
-
- If you have to read your source later on a mono terminal,
- things can get very confusing. The conclusion I drew was,
- if you need colour to discern your comments, the code could do
- with some rearrangement anyway. Of course if your a bit more
- disciplined than me, this won't bother you.
-
- Martin.
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