[Lazarus] The color of special characters in the Source Editor

[Martin]

On 15/09/2011 12:59, Martin wrote:
> On 15/09/2011 12:48, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The "spaces" inside Comments or Compiler Directives are not the correct
>> color compared to "spaces" inside code. So when you set the foreground
>> color of Space characters, that color is not applied inside Comments or
>> Compiler Directives. Thus making things like Comments especially hard to
>> read.
>>
>> See the attached image.
>>
>> Is there a specific reason this is done, or can I add this as a bug /
>> feature request to Mantis?
>>
>
> No specific reason.
> Simply matter of priority in which things are applied.

ah well, yes, it needs the scanner to break comments up into several 
tokens....

I will have  to see about how soon I get to do that.

I only want the scanner to do that if the result is needed. otherwise 
the structural scan suffers from slow down

>
> Currently the space inside a comment is seen as a comment, therefore 
> treated as comment, which is a point of view.
> I agree, for comments this is not very useful.
>
> what about spaces in strings?
> In strings, I could see people wanting there spaces to be 'string", (a 
> string of only spaces for example....)
>
>
> I probably fix it for comment, but comments only.
>
> please comment on it if you like (pun intended)