Dynamic syntax highlighting

[entropie]

Hello,

A very nice feature would be to have a dynamic syntax highlighting.

For instance, in opened a PHP file, which contains some PHP code, but also some HTML code. When my cursor is "inside" the PHP code (i.e. between the <?php ... ?> beacons), the PHP syntax colors are activated, and all the HTML code becomes monochrome (gray, black, or whatever... a customized color for disabled code). When my cursor is "outside" the PHP code (i.e. not between the <?php ... ?> beacons), the HTML syntax colors are activated, and all the PHP code becomes monochrome.

That would be very nice, and convenient to know in an eye glance in which "code context" I am.
And of course, it can be only an option in "Colors" section, which could be disabled.

Thank you.
E.

[Aivars]

This might be very challenging technically. I'll add it to the suggestions list but unless many users start demanding this feature it won't be high priority because of how difficult it would be to add.

[entropie]

Hello,

Thank you for your fast answer !
In fact, a friend of mine is using another editor (phpDesigner 8), which provides this feature. I didn't knew it before, and I found that it was an interesting way to segregate easily embedded codes in a file.

But of course, I perfectly understand that it may be challenging to develop this feature, and probably not a top priority one since people may not explicitly require it (because they probably even don't know it). But since WeBuilder already changes dynamically the language tab in the "Code explorer" pane, according the position of the cursor, I though the most difficult (i.e. detecting the current language) was already done...

Anyway... Thank you for developing "WeBuilder", which is very useful, convenient and easy to use ! :-)

Best regards,
E.

[PeterjmTim]

It is a feature I would like to see too. It would be very helpful to be able to see properly highlighted HTML inside PHP tags.