[Doxygen-develop] Feature request: color coded comments in source browser

[Michael S. <mi...@st...>]

Eclipse and Notepad++ interpret the comment sections nicely with colorized
keywords, and a different color for normal comments verses Doxygen markup
comments.  But when looking at the source the Doxygen markup is now harder
to read.  (I use STRIP_CODE_COMMENTS=NO because I write minimal comments and
what little I do write,  I still want to see it)

When generating the source code view, would it be possible to add a few more
styles for the elements inside the comment sections?  I figure the parser
already identifies the them.  Moreover, this would help understand how the
parser is using the markup.

In the CSS file I found how to change the style, but obviously only one
style for all comments.

span.comment {
	color: #800000
}

I propose:
"comment" for normal comments.
"docomment" for general Doxygen
"dockeyword" or "docommand" for interpreted Doxygen commands (assuming the
same engine used to interpret the markup, ALIASes would also be identified
automatically).

The extra nice to have would be to also identify and colorize the parsed
components of the commands such as <name>.  Also Bold, italic and other
formatting could be reflected.

Maybe going too far... but the source markup that produces links could also
be clickable.





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