[Lazarus] Syntax highlighting anomalies

[Sven Barth]

On 08.10.2010 21:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:58:31 +0200
> Sven Barth<pascaldragon at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 08.10.2010 20:52, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>> On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:39:27 +0200
>>> Sven Barth<pascaldragon at googlemail.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> The only troubles make hybrids like "index" and "message".
>>>
>>> Actually they are more simple than you think. They are highlighted by
>>> the synedit highlighter correct.
>
> oops. I confused that. A few cases were implemented, but not all.
>
>>> The trouble makers are postfix modifiers like 'default' and 'cvar'.
>>
>> But why do we need to highlight those two like Delphi does? Why does
>> "index" need to be bold if it's in "Foo[Index: Integer]" if I'd expect
>> it to be highlighted only in "Bar index 34"? Why does "message" need to
>> be highlighted everywhere if it is a keyword only in "procedure
>> Foo(aMsg: TMsgRec); message Bar;"?
>>
>> This is what I don't understand.
>
> Because comfort costs. This has nothing to do with Delphi
> compatibility, but that the highlighter is optimized for speed not
> for correctness.

For me it looks like compatibility, because Delphi is doing it the same 
way ^^

>
> You can create a bug report.

I might do that...

Regards,
Sven