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

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

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?