Visual D: is it possible to highlight function name and function call?

[timepp via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 07:21:16 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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> On 24.07.2015 08:55, timepp wrote:
>> I have checked the visual D code, seems the highlighter only 
>> do a very
>> simple lexer parse. is it possible to do the semantic check for
>> highlighter (as the tooltip did)?
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> You're right, the highlighting just uses lexer information. 
> That's why identifiers all have the same color (except when 
> explicitely changed, see 
> http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/Editor.html).
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> Visual D uses Alex Bothes semantic engine which is pretty good, 
> but I suspect it still produces too many false errors when 
> actually using it to show semantic errors (just because D code 
> can be pretty complex to analyze).
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> Just applying it to highlighting might be an intermediate step, 
> as false categorization might not be too annoying.
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> What kind of identifiers are you thinking of highlighting 
> differently?
I think the following two features would be enough to me:
1. highlight function call/function decl
2. when insertion point inside a variable, highlight all 
occurrences of the same var (like Visual C++)
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> - types
> - templates
> - global/tls/local variables
> - class/struct/union members
> - free functions/member functions/properties
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> There are so many possible different kinds plus combinations of 
> these...