Feature Request : Editor Syntax Highlighting

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Feature Request : Editor Syntax Highlighting

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I am beginning to fall in love with codelite. I used to use eclipse, but codelite is so much
lighter. I was wondering if I you can add more tags like
- enum
- typedef
- static variable
- global variable
- struct
- class
- functions
- Macros
to the syntax highlight setup? That would be very useful.

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Rajah
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Re: Feature Request : Editor Syntax Highlighting

Post by eranif »

have u tried 'Settings -> Tags Settings ... ' and enabling:
- Colour workspace tags
- Colout local variables

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Re: Feature Request : Editor Syntax Highlighting

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Hi Eran,

I tried that and found that it colours all the different types I
mentioned in the same colour. I was wondering if you could
individually sent colours for each one of them (I think you
can do that in eclipse).

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Re: Feature Request : Editor Syntax Highlighting

Post by eranif »

It is limitation of scintilla, it provides me 5 diff of 'special keywords' 3 are used by default (for keywords, operators and I cant remember the third one) and I took advantage of the 2 last: 1 for workspace tags and 1 for local variables. So unless Scintilla will enhance it, I am afraid I cant do much about it (unless I will decide to dive into the LexCPP code...)

You may file a feature request at scintilla' project here: http://scintilla.org

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Re: Feature Request : Editor Syntax Highlighting

Post by rajah »

Oh, I understand, I will add a request on scintilla.
Thanks Eran

Rajah
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