How can syntax highlighting be the same as remix?

[ajianggood]

How can syntax highlighting be the same as remix?

[kevupton]

That is the only thing that this plugin needs. Some better syntax highlighting (remix level). Once it has achieved that, it is by far the best solidity dev environment. 🙏 nice work to the creator 💪

[SerCeMan]

Hey, @ajianggood @kevupton! When saying like remix, do you mean the colour scheme, or something else? A concrete example might help a lot.

[chrisffm]

One thing I like about remix is the error highlighting but might be hard to implement as it only shows after compiling the contract

[tomasz90]

Hey, @ajianggood @kevupton! When saying like remix, do you mean the colour scheme, or something else? A concrete example might help a lot.

My comment is not about remix like highlighting but overall highlighting issues. I would say that function invocations should be yellow instead of light grey. This would be much easier to read. I see that only functions declaration are yellow and most of the code is light grey.

[kevupton]

One thing I like about remix is the error highlighting but might be hard to implement as it only shows after compiling the contract

I notice that the vscode plugin has this error underline as well, which is actually quite nice.

[kevupton]

Hey, @ajianggood @kevupton! When saying like remix, do you mean the colour scheme, or something else? A concrete example might help a lot.

@SerCeMan Here is an example of remix highlightings. Take nots of each of the highlighted red sections and compare with the second image

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Current Remix Colours

I may have missed some colours here, but this is what I found

Each line represents one colour:

• #32ba89 internal external private payable public pure view
• #ffc107 if else
• #086cb5 virtual
• #868e96 override immutable
• #219451 returns return
• #569cd6 constant, (variable types uint, string, etc.) function, contract, is, import new struct event modifier pragma solidity library enum
• #007aa6 assert msg require this bytes block
• #9e7e08 memory calldata
• #c97539 for while
• #f38abb constructor receive fallback
• #608b4e comments
• #ce9178 import strings
• #b5cea8 solidity version
• #e46b15 try catch

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Nice to haves

Not included in remix vscode at the moment

• [ ] console for hardhat/console.sol as its own colour (same way javascript has a colour for console)
• [ ] method highlighting when invoking some method from another library or contract, in the same way javscript highlights a method