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Re: Probable answer to a mystery

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• Subject: [mg54213] Re: Probable answer to a mystery
• From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:17:01 -0500 (EST)
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• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Steve Gray wrote:
> I complained about psuedo-spaces appearing in the middle of function
> names and causing various malfunctions. For clarity I had highlighted
> these names in yellow where they are defined and in green where they
> are used. This lets me quickly see all the defs and calls without doing
> searches.
> 
> I think the problem that caused the psuedo-spaces to appear is that
> occasionally my highlighting "stroke" accidentally did not cover
> the full name, so  I would highlight the last character or two
> separately. Examination of the actual plaintext showed that a color
> callout appeared twice in the name, once for each highlighting stroke.
> 
> Where I have seen a problem, I have erased the highlighting and redone it
> in one stroke. I think this will fix it. It's a bug in Mathematica, I would say,
> but one that can be gotten around. If this is correct, it will remove
> a  major nuisance.
> 
> Steve Gray
> 
I think whatever you do, if you colour code, you have to be prepared for 
the odd glitch when you edit it - there just seem to be some bugs in 
that area that WRI have become so attached to that they don't want to 
fix them! Coloured comments seem particularly error prone. I think part 
of the problem is that it is impossible to reproduce these problems and 
send in a bug report! It would help a lot if you could press a button 
and save a log of all the keystroke and mouse information in some format 
that would let WRI play it back and capture the problem.

I do my colouring by program. I suggest you write a program that reads a 
selected cell, removes any existing colouring, figures out which 
functions are being defined, and applies the colouring exactly as you 
want it.

David Bailey
dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk