Bug 165535 - Syntax Coloring with different background colors
Summary: Syntax Coloring with different background colors
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: cdt-editor (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Jonah Graham CLA
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Reported: 2006-11-22 16:44 EST by Mario Charest CLA
Modified: 2020-09-04 15:20 EDT (History)
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Description Mario Charest CLA 2006-11-22 16:44:24 EST 
Would be nice if syntax coloring would allow selection of background color for each item.

There are very little color to choose from, this would allow a much wider range of possibility.
Comment 1 Borys Bak CLA 2010-03-24 07:25:59 EDT 
This is a duplicate of this bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6712
Comment 2 Anton Leherbauer CLA 2010-03-26 06:05:45 EDT 
It's not really a duplicate because the other bug is for JDT, but it is certainly related and the same arguments against it apply also here.
Comment 3 Nathan Ridge CLA 2017-01-07 18:55:52 EST 
I'd like to see this ability.

An example use case is described in bug 487764 comment 1 (the "more involved approach").

More generally, a foreground color and a background color could signify two orthogonal pieces of information about a token.