Re: [Anjuta-list] Customized highlight style

[Wei Weng <wweng kencast com>]

Ooouch. I never imagined such complexity in creating highlighting for
new programming languages.

Is there plan in making this easier? Or at least a GUI or some tools to
modify it.

Thanks


On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 23:48, Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to create your (my) own customized highlight style for
> > new programming languages, in Anjuta 1.0.0?
> 
> Definite yes - but it's not very simple.
> 
> > 
> > If so, how?
> 
> Anjuta uses (mostly) the Lexers provided with Scintilla. You'll need to
> write a Lexer for your language and patch the sources to use the lexer.
> You'll also need a properties files for things like keywords, etc.
> (unless you want to hardcode everything). You can read up about
> Scintilla at http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html and about
> writing lexers at http://www.scintilla.org/Lexer.txt. You can also look
> at the lexers provided with Scintilla by default as examples.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Rgds,
> Biswa.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
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