How do I use the new 1.8 RC3 Structural Highlighting feature?
lazarus / 9-Editor

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carl_caulkett · 2017-07-07 12:51

Hello, I read in the
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.8.0_release_notes that there is a
new "New colored outline of source structure." feature. I've been
through the options but I cannot see how to enable this. What's the
secret?

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wp · 2017-07-07 13:44

"Tools" > "Options" > "Editor" > "Matching Keywords": Check "Outline
(global)". You can fine-tune below.

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carl_caulkett · 2017-07-07 13:59

Cool! Thanks very much. Any way of changing the choice of colors?

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carl_caulkett · 2017-07-07 21:32

OK. I've found a rather hacky way of changing the garish red level 0
line color to a much more soothing Fuchsia. I changed line 179 of
SynEditMarkupFoldColoring.pas from Colors[0] := clRed; to Colors[0] :=
$00FF00FF;. Ideally this line would assign the current Keyword color
to Colors[0] to give a more coherent color scheme where the color of
the keywords is more uniform. (my Keyword color is Fuchsia, by the
way!).

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carl_caulkett · 2017-07-07 21:58

Submitted to Mantis as https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32125

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Pascal · 2017-07-08 05:31

I will implement the color options for this in the near future. So for
the time beeing just change the source.

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carl_caulkett · 2017-07-08 13:10

Cool! Color choice aside, it's a really good feature

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Pascal · 2017-07-08 18:29

Yes, i also like it very much. That's why i developed it further after
x2nie did a briliant start.

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carl_caulkett · 2017-07-08 22:28

I've just spotted why the color red was chosen as the first color.
Very appropriate on Pride Day!

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JD · 2017-07-09 13:30

Excellent. I always install CNPack in Delphi so I really like this. 

JD