Add individual token highlighting in Java for both read-only and mutable variables.
- Dominant language
- Java
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Description
### Description
I'd like to be able to visually tell if a variable is read-only (final, or effective final), or mutable (because it gets assigned to), similar to how other IDEs support this.
### Use case/motivation
Motivation being that it greatly improves the sight-readability of code for those of that trained their eyes in this manner.
### Related issues
_No response_
### Are you willing to submit a pull request?
No
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or editor entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating NetBeans' Java editor semantic-highlighting entry point and determine how it distinguishes final, effectively final, and assigned variables; done means read-only and mutable variables are visually distinguishable in both read-only and editable Java files.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100