Correct handling of scheme symbols

[xsrvmy]

It seems that the editor simply doesn't handle scheme symbols at all

• symbols are highlighted as normal identifier, leading to odd highlighting if a keyword (eg. "do") is used as a symbol
• code completion pops up which is often not useful

[PeterBjuhr]

Hi, thanks for reporting!

Could you post some example code?

[jeanas]

If you write this:

#'(do re mi fa)

the symbol do is highlighted as a keyword, even though the quoting makes it a simple, unspecial symbol:

On the other hand, when writing lispy macros (à la defmacro), this behavior can be useful, so it's not entirely clear that changing this is desirable...

On the other hand, now that LilyPond uses Guile 2, which puts emphasis on the modern syntax-rules/syntax-case-based system, which uses #' (syntax) instead of ' (quote) for the macro output, it might be reasonable to assume that stuff inside a quote is not macro output and should not be highlighted specially.

[jeanas]

I have transferred this issue to the python-ly repository.