[clangd-dev] Syntax highlighting of keywords

[Sam McCall via clangd-dev]

Yeah. I can see this being useful if lexing got more complicated (e.g. if
the committee added string interpolation).

But as it stands, I think we should be doing the simplest thing if
performance doesn't matter, and the minimal thing if it does.

Alternately we could highlight *everything* (including braces and such) to
allow editors without local highlighting. But I doubt they'll ever exist,
the flickering would be so bad.

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 9:59 AM Ilya Biryukov via clangd-dev <
clangd-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi clangd-dev,
>
> I was wondering whether there's any value in the highlighting for
> "primitive" types being added on keywords like 'void', 'int', etc?
>
> - Any editor handles those with default syntax highlight.
> - It's trivial and does not require actual semantic knowledge.
>
> With that in mind, I wonder whether we should drop this completely and
> just let the editors handle the keywords?
> What do people think?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ilya Biryukov
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