syntax highlighted symbol shadowing for Curl
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg114721] syntax highlighted symbol shadowing for Curl
- From: JUN <noeckel at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:55:10 -0500 (EST)
Hi, there is a new shadowing conflict in version 8 that affects the Curl operator from the VectorAnalysis package (heavily used in my electrodynamics lecture): because of an existing System`Curl, the former Curl is now highlighted as a shadowing conflict (although it still works, fortunately). I didn't find any replies to an earlier post where this issue was raised: http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2009/Jan/msg00039.html So right now I am resorting to this preamble to avoid the annoying and confusing red highlighting of this ubiquitous operator: SetOptions[$FrontEnd, First[Options[$FrontEnd, "AutoStyleOptions"]] /. ("HighlightSymbolShadowing" -> _) -> \ ("HighlightSymbolShadowing" -> False)] I wish there were a more specific way to make Curl appear normal again, and if anyone has a better solution that would be great. In the same VectorAnalysis package, I also see a strange behavior when typing ?CrossProduct The Times symbol doesn't show up correctly. I reported this as a bug. Jens