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jonathon
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6 years ago
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Syntax highlighting

Hi   I'm just wondering if there is a setting to enable language specific highlighting. I can see TestComplete hihglights some keywords. But I was hoping in my case to enable some Python syntax hig...
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jonathon
Contributor
6 years ago

Hi tristaanogre 

 

Thanks for this. What I'm looking for is more so specific keyword highlighting. Take example this snippet in TestComplete

 

 

I'm used to PyCharm, so it would be nice to see the distinction between keywords, like decorators with @classmethod, self, return, None etc

 

This is what I see in PyCharm for instance.

 

 

Maybe I didn't enable the right option?

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jonathon
Contributor
6 years ago

 Oh, ok I 've figured it out - thanks

 

One think I couldn't seem to find was highlighting for just arguments?

 

 

  • Wamboo's avatar
    Wamboo
    Community Hero
    6 years ago

    Hi,

     

    In my opinion thres no option to highlight only specific words like arguments in TestComplete IDE.

    • jonathon's avatar
      jonathon
      Contributor
      6 years ago

      Hi Wamboo 

       

      ok, most editors, at least, Atom, PyCharm and VSCode will highlight the function arguments and when those arguments are self and cls, they'll also highlight their use in the body of the function too as they're special to Python.

       

      Another thing I wondered is say I have function that returns a path to an element. I then won't get autocomplete when I try to reference that variable the path was assigned to. For instance:

       

          def get_patient_banner(self):
        return Aliases.NavX.NavXHost.patient_name_banner.patient_name

      If I type "." after patient_name it will give me options.

       

      if I do

       

          def is_correct_patient_shown(self, name):
        patient_banner = self.get_patient_banner()
        patient_banner.

      there will be no autocomplete options when using this variabe?

       

      I also can't click a function call and be taken to that declaration?

       

      I'm not complaining here, just asking

       

      :smileyhappy: