# I wonder if this is feasible in the Clarion IDE

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**Category:** questions\
**Tags:** vscode, ide\
**Created:** [May 26, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/i-wonder-if-this-is-feasible-in-the-clarion-ide/6273 "2023-05-26T15:43:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![jslarve](https://clarionhub.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jslarve](https://clarionhub.com/u/jslarve)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/i-wonder-if-this-is-feasible-in-the-clarion-ide/6273/1 "2023-05-26T15:43:17Z")

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Is physical appearance of the text editor something that can be supported by an extension?

This is a pretty neat VS-Code extension and it works on .clw files.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qwGD6GMgkjY/maxresdefault.jpg "Indent Rainbow Life") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGD6GMgkjY)

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**Author:** ![CarlBarnes](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/carlbarnes/32/1859_2.png) [@CarlBarnes](https://clarionhub.com/u/CarlBarnes)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/i-wonder-if-this-is-feasible-in-the-clarion-ide/6273/2 "2023-05-26T17:09:46Z")

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In short, I think this tool colors the left side indenting on the selected lines?

An `OMIT('***')` will color the background grey. Looking at options that appears to be a special highlight feature for Clarion.

I wonder if a region of code could be a “Span” that has a Tag on the Line Before and After? E.g. in the span `!G!!` to `!!G!end` the background is colored light Green instead of the normal white. That way I could put some Tags around code I am interested, or working on, and have the background colors be different. Those tags would be retained on save.

I took a quick look at the Highlight settings and see Spans. I tried to setup my own GREEN span but did not figure it out.

 ![image](https://clarionhub-uploads.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/c/c848ed49e5acb2e43e86be9a944fcb29c2f19951.png)

I did change OMIT to be colored Green, which is what I was trying for my `!G!!` to `!!G!end` span.

 ![image](https://clarionhub-uploads.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/f/f6c0b4093d9d597cc600350e2a911bdc9ece643c.png)

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**Author:** ![donridley](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/donridley/32/1459_2.png) [@donridley](https://clarionhub.com/u/donridley)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/i-wonder-if-this-is-feasible-in-the-clarion-ide/6273/3 "2023-05-27T13:19:24Z")

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Pretty cool Carl.

Where’s that editor in the IDE? Or is that one of your custom utilities?

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**Author:** ![Rick\_UpperPark](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/rick_upperpark/32/346_2.png) [@Rick\_UpperPark](https://clarionhub.com/u/Rick_UpperPark)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/i-wonder-if-this-is-feasible-in-the-clarion-ide/6273/4 "2023-05-27T13:58:46Z")

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That’s in Tools-\>Options-\>Text Editor-\>Highlighting

 ![image](https://clarionhub-uploads.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/a/a9133759c178aaf972c1fcea7acbb717b4856bee.png)