I don't think there's a hope in hell but I thought I'd ask anyway.

I've added an option to an AutoIndent macro I wrote some time ago that
inserts vertical dashed lines at each indentation level in order to assist
analysis of code structure. The dashed lines are created by inserting
apostrophes on each line at each indentation level. If the code structure is
correct, then the parts of each block code statement are aligned at the same
indentation degree (as per the AutoIndent macro) and are linked with the
dashed lines. This should (yet to be used in practice) be useful for analysis
of code with a lot of nesting that is also long.

The problem is that the apostrophes make the text in each line turn green
(since they are used to create comment block), and therefore, the colouring
for key words and statements is lost, hindering analysis. It would be nice if
there were a way to just freeze the IDE so that it wouldn't change when I do
this. I have another macro that removes the dashed lines (apostrophes) which
could then reenable the IDE. Or possibly some other stragegy?

Confirmation that there's no realistic hope is also of value since I can
then move on.

Greg Wilson