Suggestion: improved highlighting of globals and datasets

[ArnoLundberg]

Hi Mattias,

I have two suggestions concerning the syntax highlighting:

1. highlight global variables specifically, e.g. in a command like keep if year >= $first_year $first_year is highlighted the same way as keep where I would prefer something which is specific to globals
2. specif highlighting for datasets, i.e. highlight strings like somedataset.dta specifically

Thanks very much!

[mattiasnordin]

Hi Arno,

Regarding your first suggestion, that should depend on the color scheme you are using. StataEditor assigns a unique category for locals and globals, which is different from keep which is in the category for commands. If you're using the default color scheme "Monokai", then they should have different colors (which should be orange for locals and globals). Please let me know if that is not the case.

I do like your second suggestion, which I might add for the next update.

Mattias

[ArnoLundberg]

Hi Mattias,

you are completely right, with Monokai it does work as intended. I modified my color scheme accordingly.

Thanks for considering my second suggestion!

Best, Arno

[mattiasnordin]

Great!