[Development] A modest proposal: disable lower-case keywords (emit, foreach, forever, signals, slots) by default

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 28 February 2020 12:12:35 PST Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> On 28/02/2020 13.39, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > That's my point: it's a reasonable feature to ask that any good IDE
> > implement.
> It may be reasonable to ask *an IDE* to implement such a feature. It is
> *not* reasonable to ask every place that developers look at code — some
> of which don't even do basic syntax highlighting, much less have the
> project parsing capability necessary to build a code model — to
> implement such a feature. That being the case, you are never going to
> achieve the same level of annotation as `emit` provides.

We lived for 7 years with Gerrit not highlighting anything at all in 
qstring.cpp. That's not the end of the world.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products