DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 14:07:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The only downside is now we have to rather tediously tweak the 
> error message texts so they use backticks.

It also dilutes the meaning of color. I've been wanting to see 
highlighted matches and failures in overload resolution and 
constraint checks (this has been on my todo list for a while 
since every attempt so far has failed; as I'm sure you know, it 
isn't trivial to implement in the current compiler). Such 
highlights would now have to compete with unnecessary syntax 
coloration; you can't visually scan for color anymore since it 
doesn't mean anything special.

Terminal color choices are also painful, though I kinda believe 
this is the terminal's fault. I ended up doing hacky code in mine 
to ensure a legible palette, but still, not everyone has done 
that.


Suppose I, or someone else, were to write a PR eliminating your 
syntax highlighting in favor of semantic highlighting - 
colorizing to add more detail about the error message instead of 
about the lexer's output. Will you accept it?