Blue for reserved words, green for comments, red for anything the compiler thinks is a syntax error.
If you want visual cues for anything else, you have to rely on careful indentation and layout. Which, of course, I do...
Which leads to a related question: how do you lay out SQL (and maybe other code, although most languages have conventions) so that you can get immediate visual-cortex input into your first read-through of the code, rather than mumbling through the text and waiting for the words to come together and give you an overview of the logic structures?
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Date: 2007-04-25 01:06 pm (UTC)If you want visual cues for anything else, you have to rely on careful indentation and layout. Which, of course, I do...
Which leads to a related question: how do you lay out SQL (and maybe other code, although most languages have conventions) so that you can get immediate visual-cortex input into your first read-through of the code, rather than mumbling through the text and waiting for the words to come together and give you an overview of the logic structures?