Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]
Syntax highlighting is a feature of text editors that displays text, especially source code, in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms.
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Vim highlight all text after multiple "#"
I am trying to make text bold if it appears after a series of # hashes. This is the line in my .vimrc:
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt hi header cterm=cyan ctermbg=red
and my attempted regular ...
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Sublime Text: Why regex in syntax highlighting does not work?
In Sublime Text 3, a default syntax highlighting rule paints a SQL SELECT just fine if it's in the same line, but not if it's in the next line:
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After reading this question I opened the PHP ...
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How can I disable vim's textwidth for specific lines?
I have textwidth set to 80 characters, and I have it set to 75 characters for gitcommit files.
The thing is, the git commits at my company always have a last line that indicates some metadata about ...
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In Notepad++ how can I use the Style Configurator to change my user-defined language?
I've created a user-defined language for Notepad++, including all the syntax styling. It works well. (It's actually for Markdown, FWIW.)
I coded all the colors into the style when I made it. The ...
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syntax highlighting breaks off on vim as you page up/down (on OSX terminal and iterm2)
This is a weird bug
the problem is the syntax highlighting (say zenburn) on vim randomly appears and disappears as I page up and down (using ctrlu and ctrld).. for example compare these two renders ...
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Is the coderay syntax-highlighting plugin built into redmine, or does it have to be installed separately?
I have installed a recent version of redmine - 3.3.3 but there is no syntax highlighting plugin included in the default installation.
Most redmine searches mention coderay. Is that something I have ...
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How to change the syntax highlighting style in Meld
Meld 1.5.1 uses gtksourceview (via pygtksourceview) for its syntax-highlighting, however I'm unable to figure out how to configure it to use a specific style (color scheme/theme) from the ones ...
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Dreamweaver: Auto-correct
In Notepad++ when you type a wrong tag or a wrong word, the color will stay black instead of blue. How do you set up this preference in Dreamweaver CC?
Thanks.
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Finding source of Vim syntax highlighting
I have installed Vim 8.0 on my Windows 7 and Windows 10 machines. When I edit a text file using restructured text (with a .txt extension) and use :set ft=rst, syntax highlighting starts up as expected....
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How to set syntax enable permanently in Vim
How do I make Vim to remember the syntax enable (or syntax on) command, so I don't have to type it every time I open a new file?
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SublimeText Markdown Extended add Roman Number Highlighting
In this question, I've inquired about how to highlight more than one markdown list punctuation item. I now want to extend the highlighting to roman numbers as well, because those are supported by ...
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SecureCRT and Nice PHP/JS Syntax Highlighting: How To Configure?
I'm running SecureCRT using Windows 7. After googling a bit the VanDyke results came up, but I want to get it so instead of just a black background with all green text (sure it's better than the ...
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objective-c syntax highlighting for vim
I would like to have an excellent syntax highliter for obj-c that matches or beats the one in my xcode..
I've installed base16 through yadr, and i've also installed cocoa.vim to have better syntax ...
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combining syntax highlighting in notepad++
Is it possible to highlight two (or more) languages simultaneously in notepad++?
In this particular case I am working with xml files, but in certain tags in the files I am using using python, JS, and ...
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Custom Syntax Highlighting for AutoHotkey in Notepad++
I'm using the latest version of Notepad++ as of this post (version 7.3.3, 64-bit) with User Defined Language v.2.1.0.12.
I've added syntax highlighting for AutoHotkey provided by the AHK message ...
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How to export syntax highlighting rules from vim to vimrc format
When I analyze log files in vim I often create ad-hoc syntax highlighting rules for better orientation. For example
:syntax match myerror match /NullPointerException/
:highlight myerror ctermbg=red
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Vim syntax highlighting disappeared for text files (.txt)
My to-do list is a plain text .txt file that I load in Vim. In .txt files Vim has always coloured hash marks (#) and the text following them on the same line, which I use to mark out urgent to-do ...
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Highlight comment in Notepad++ after langs.xml alteration
I am trying to fit Notepad++'s highlighting to my needs. Using MySQL most of the highlighting work is ok with the "SQL" setting under languages.
I now want Notepad++ to highlight single-line ...
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vim - how to treat three quotations in a row as a comment rather than a string
I use python and in python, three quotation marks in a row
"""
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signify a block-comment, and a normal comment is just a hashtag. (#)
I want comments to be colored grey and strings to be ...
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Is it possible to import VIM syntax highlight into Notepad++?
VIM's got a syntax highlight file I would like to have in Notepad++.
But VIM uses ".vim" files for syntax highlight definitions, while Notepad++ uses XML.
At the "Import" button, you can only specify ...
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IntelliJ / WebStorm Editor Colors not showing correctly
I'm running WebStorm 10.0.2, and for an unknown reason someday my CoffeeScript code started showing only some highlighting. I have no idea of what's going on since the settings seems to be fine.
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How do I enable syntax highlighting for .bash_aliases in vim?
I'm working on reorganizing my .bashrc. I moved my aliases to .bash_aliases (which is sourced by .bashrc, but I can't figure out how to enable syntax highlighting for this file. vim seems unable to ...
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Can Visual Studio Mark Instances of a Highlighted Variable/Function in Scroll Bar?
I'm using Visual Studio for the first time and I'm already missing a feature from Eclipse. Namely, when I select a variable or function, Eclipse would put little colored marks all throughout the ...
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Visual Studio and syntax highlighting
I just installed the VS Syntax Highlighting pack
but now have no idea how to actually apply colored highlighting to existing C# or XML code.
There is no 'Quick start' guide and I have dug through ...
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Vim doesn't highligh syntax of links
I have a markdown file with the .md extension as "Personal Note.md".
I make a symbolik (soft) link of it by ln -s command in Linux as "Note".
I open the link with vim, it successfully traces the ...
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In Vim, how to split same file into different windows using different syntax hightlighting
Often, I find myself editing an HTML file with some JavaScript in it at the bottom. I use a vertical (vsp) or horizontal (sp) split on the file so I can see the JavaScript and the HTML in two ...
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Getting rid of random syntax highlighting
I'm having a problem with Eclipse. It randomly highlights code in grey, usually as I type something. It doesn't always appear when I type, and goes away at random times too. It's really annoying. I ...
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eclipse .conf files coloring syntax (highlighting)
I haven't found an easy way to add a simple syntax to Eclipse, regarding conf files.
I took a look at xText, but seems really complex for something really simple.
I basically want to color the lines ...
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Pseudo-class selectors not highlighted in sublime text
When I use pseudo-class selectors in sublime text, the syntax does not highlight the pseudo-class selectors (mine is plain white, see screenshot).
Everything works fine, it's just not highlighted.
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Simple custom syntax in vim [duplicate]
I would like that for files with .vm extension vim would:
colour in red all the words between two back-ticks like `this`,
colour in yellow what is between two dollars like $this is in yellow$,
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Sublime 3 PHP/HTML syntax highlighting
This image sums it up. Whenever I write a PHP tag "inside" a PHP tag that ends in open brackets [if, else, for, ...], the rest of the line becomes white.
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Sublime Text 3 PHP Syntax Highlighting Issue
Sublime Text 3 is set to PHP syntax but nesting causes some weird syntax highlighting issue as seen in the image below.
I was wondering if anyone else encountered this issue and if they solved it?
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Custom-defined type highlighting in Sublime Text
I am looking for a configuration/combination of plugins + clang (or any other parser) that can allow sublime text to highlight all custom defined types just like it highlights native types such as int,...
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Is it possible in vim to search for a term excluding those appearing in comments/block comments?
For example, if I want to search for \<data\> but I want to skip any entries appearing in multi-line block comments like this:
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* Don't match comments containing the term 'data'
*/
I can't ...
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Text editor for exporting syntax-highlighted code in html format [closed]
Long time along I used to export syntax-highlighted code from a certain text editor on the linux platform.
The idea is that it maps all the syntax-highlighting, like color, boldness, italics, indent, ...
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Typescript syntax highlighting of strings in Solarized light
I just installed the Typescript plugin. (I tried installing through PackageControl and manually). In Solarized light, the strings (in 'single' or "double" quotes) are the same formatting as default ...
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How can I highlight .htaccess code in Notepad++?
How can I highlight .htaccess code?
I downloaded this XML file and I copy and pasted file content to userDefinedLanguage.xml inside my install directory.
According to the documentation found here I ...
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How to change syntax for a specific folder in Sublime Text 3
I write JS projects in ES5 and ES6. I installed Babel-Sublime for highlighting Babel supported code. Now, I open a .js file written in ES6, goto "View -> syntax -> Open all with current extension as : ...
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notepad++ - Applying CSS styles for SCSS files?
In Notepad++, I have some SCSS files for which I would like the syntax to be highlighted like CSS files are. How do I do this in Notepad++?
In other words, I would like to apply the same styles to ...
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How to completely disable syntax higlighting in Notepad++
I'm unable to completely disable syntax highlighting for Java source code files in Notepad++.
I've commented out the Java sections in langs.model.xml and stylers.model.xml (even tried deleting those ...
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How do I get Dreamweaver to deploy syntax highlighting for full script CFC's?
Is there a way to get Dreamweaver CS4 to use syntax highlighting when writing full script CFCs? If the document type is .cfc and they syntax is fullscript, there is no syntax highlighting; the code ...
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LESS and CSS3 syntax highlighting
I found this post on SU, but it doesn't seem to address my needs exactly, so I'll ask a similar question. I normally use PSPad, and I'm also not too scared of Notepad++. They are both good editors, ...
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Turning on XML syntax highlighting in vim for a non-XML file
I'm using vim to browse through some log files (the file extension is .log) which contain a lot of XML.
How can I turn on XML syntax highlighting after opening the file? Of course, I don't actually ...
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Vim: How to change the current item highlight color when substituting
I have changed my Vim colours so when I do a /search, every match is highlighted in bright yellow. This makes matches much easier to see.
However, when I perform a substitution with the confirm flag ...
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How do I get Notepad++ to associate a file type with a language? [duplicate]
I have associated .wxs files with Notepad++. So far so good. However, it doesn't remember that it should use XML syntax highlighting. How do I associate a file-type with a Language?
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No syntax highlighting in GVIM on Windows with _vimrc
My GVIM 7.3.46 install on Windows XP Professional SP3 32bit does not perform syntax highlighting if there exists a _vimrc file, at least not PHP and C. Even explicitly mentioning set syntax=php I get ...
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Color coded Windows 7 Preview Pane?
Customizing what files you can preview is cool, but is there a way to create a custom preview extension to add syntax highlighting? I have many .h, .c, .cpp, .cs and .java files on my windows machine ...
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Make part of php comment line bold in vim
I've a PHP script, and I would like to know if natively, I can make a part of a comment line BOLD.
For example a comment :
// it is released when you execute RELEASE_LOCK(), execute a new GET_LOCK()...
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How do I create my custom "User-Defined" language in Notepad++?
In Notepad++ there is a menu option: Language->"User-Defined".
How do I customize that? What are capabilities of such option?
Can I highlight date/time? Can I highlight 21-29th symbols in the lines?...
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Notepad++ change color of import statement in Python
Is there a way in Notepad++ to adjust the syntax highlighting for specific keywords? What I want is to be able to change the color of the import keyword in Python. I know you can create a user defined ...