Syntax highlighting

[jack]

How much syntax highlighting do you generally get when you edit code? Any?

Does it call out different variable types?

Can you easily configure it dynamically to eg. highlight different ifdef branches or variables with certain prefixes?

Should it be able to?

Comments

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

Living as I do in the JavaVerse, a fancy IDE is essential for not dying of verbosity. Eclipse is my default, I don't know how configurable it is. Variable names are highlighted as being static, non-static or local to a method, but there's no type highlighting beyond that.

When I did lots of python work, well, it's dynamically typed, so no type highlighting there.

I'm not convinced that type highlighting is universally useful, given dynamic typing, type heirarchies etc.