[ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-8

[Monte Goulding]

> On 18 Jul 2017, at 5:59 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I think it is worth having a preference for both highlighting and completion - it serves people's individual tastes, and as long as the preference is discoverable then it won't add any complexity.

OK, I’ll open a report about those
> 
> Ideally highlighting would be context aware - so outside of a string, it highlights other brackets outside of strings; but when in a string it highlights brackets in strings:
> 
>  put (1 "a(2" & tVar ")2" )1 after tFoo
> 
> (Numbers used to indicate matching pairs)

I think it doesn’t currently do what you are suggesting but in the case above it does what you want anyway ;-)
> 
> I was thinking in terms of syntactically - missing the point of in-string highlighting (as HH and Mark Wieder pointed out).
> 
> Indeed, the current approach is an approximation to the ideal and adding { and } to highlighting wouldn't do any harm; and would serve the use-case of JSON and similar generation.
> 
> In terms of ' then, for much the same reason that would probably be useful - although that might require a bit more work on the highlighting code as it isn't a matched pair (@montegoulding?).

Should be the same as quote so not a big issue if it’s helpful.

Cheers

Monte