Re: Status of editors with (partial) semantic awareness

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> Vim does a great job with highlighting and indentation.

Sure, and I get good highlighting with SciTE as well (but not the last
'end' which is nifty).

But this form of highlighting is just driven by syntax, keywords,
strings, blocks, etc.  It does not look at your code and try to work
out whether a variable is a global or not. That's the hard part, to do
semantic analysis on code while it's being edited.

steve d.