Bug 181111

Summary: add operator/symbol class to default highlights
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: dillonco <dillonco>
Component: syntaxAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: cullmann
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description dillonco 2009-01-17 22:50:35 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Operators/symbols appear in a large number of highlighting styles, but lack a usable default style.  I find that operator coloration vastly increases readability and would therefore like to see it as a default style. 

I would suggest that the default's default be simply black text (as Normal) but bolded.  I personally prefer gold color too, but that's already the default for numbers, and simple bold is more innocuous. 

P.S. Would this be better placed under kate or katepart?  I'm filing under kwrite at the moment because that's what I'm using, and I figure it probably all goes to the same place ;).
Comment 1 Matthew Woehlke 2009-01-24 02:17:38 UTC 
> I find that operator coloration vastly increases readability and would
> therefore like to see it as a default style.

Seems reasonable. We already use NormalText+Bold for keywords, but I don't think using that for operators also would be an unreasonable overloading.

> P.S. Would this be better placed under kate or katepart?

"kate" (product) covers katepart and major users. Since this is about syntax highlighting, the correct component is "syntax" :-).
Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2012-11-10 20:00:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 160529 ***