Comment 1 Dani Megert 2006-04-08 08:46:00 EDT

Please provide more info, e.g. in the following code snippet:

...
this.foo();
foo();
th<caret>is.bar();
...

what would you highlight and what would be the benefit?

Comment 2 Tobias Widmer 2006-04-10 06:57:54 EDT

Just highlight all identifiers of 'this' (ThisExpression). For qualified this expressions, highlight the 'this' expressions where the qualifier matches:

this.foo();
Outer.this.bar();
OuterOuter.<hilite>th<caret>is</hilite>.bar1();
OuterOuter.<hilite>this</hilite>.bar2();
this.foo1(OuterOuter.<hilite>this</hilite>)

Conceptionally, this is an expression like eg. field accesses and highlighting occurrences would bring the same benefit as for field accesses, such as quick usage overview as method arguments or qualifiers

Comment 3 Dani Megert 2006-04-10 07:12:05 EDT

OK, so you wouldn't want/need to also highlight the second foo() from comment 1 somehow?

Comment 4 Tobias Widmer 2006-04-10 07:17:51 EDT

No, just occurrences of the 'this' keyword, resolving to the same binding