comments and syntax highlighting

parcley · Post by **parcley** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:49 am

seriously, this is killing me.

when i comment out a line in php and the ending '?>' is on the same line as the comment it's also commented out and the syntax highlighting goes crazy.

when i comment out html and php using the html comments "<blah>" the highlighting stops the comment at any '>' character and the syntax highlighting goes crazy

this interferes with my work numerous times a day and i would love to see it addressed in the next update.

thanks for a program i couldn't' do my work without karlis.

Post by **Karlis** » Mon May 28, 2007 1:59 pm

You can actually edit the syntax highlighting scripts on your own to adjust them to your own needs. Some regular expression skills are required.

Options -> Preferences -> Text Editor -> Colors -> Advanced Tools -> Custom Highlighter Scripts.

Unfortunately there are no docs at the time, but you can figure out the system by example.

notuo · Post by **notuo** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:02 pm

Hi Karlis. Nice to see this option but unfortunately, the XS files looks like ancient Chinese for me.

Anyway, I'll take a look and try to understand this.

But I like to add my vote to this option.

Maybe some person who has advanced regular expressions skills can help.

Post by **MikeyB** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:42 am

The same happens with the ASP syntax highlighting.

Comment out a line with the %> at the end then the highlighting is wrong.

Post by **Karlis** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:40 pm

I have added this to our todo with medium priority. Let's hope we will manage it soon.