Questions about the feature of syntax-highlighting (where code structure is made visually prominent) in software such as text-editors and integrated development environments (ide).
Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]
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How do I enable syntax highlighting in nano?
Can nano do syntax highlighting like gedit and vim? How can I enable it? I need at least bash and python syntax highlights.
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Can I set a default syntax highlighting in Gedit?
Until you save a document in gedit, syntax highlighting is turned off. There are obviously good reasons for this -- people might get confused if certain words were randomly showing up in different colors. But for my purposes, I use gedit almost…
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How do I add a syntax highlighter format to Gedit?
How can I add in the regular expressions for an additional syntax language?
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How to change the default highlighting of gedit for a specific extension
Everytime I open a .m file, gedit associates Octave highlighting to it.
I would like to change the default behavior to Matlab.
How can I, in general, change the default highlighting that gedit gives to a file associated to one extension to another…
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Is there syntax highlighting for psql?
Is there some setting or package that I could use to give syntax highlighting to psql (the PostgreSQL shell)?
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Create a custom syntax highlight in gedit
Following my question from long ago, I am still trying to tweak my fortune handling capabilities. The display in terminal is awesome, just one thing remains - syntax highlighting in Gedit as I add, edit or delete individual fortunes.
My custom…
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Swift syntax highlighting in gedit?
I do not see an option for Swift highlighting in the gedit language menu. How can I get gedit to highlight Swift code for me?
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Syntax Highlighting vi editor
How to enable syntax highlighting features in vi editor ? I am currently using ubuntu 16.10.
Here is the output of vi --version.
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Nov 24 2016 22:32:42)
Included patches: 1-1829
Extra patches:…
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How to set nano default syntax highlighting for files with no extension?
I'm trying to set a 'default' syntax highlighting scheme for nano when I'm editing files with no extension such as /etc/nginx/sites-available/default or /etc/ssh/sshd_config but I can't seem to make it work.
I've copied the c syntax highlighting…
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How do I enable syntax highlighting for groovy in Vi?
I was using Fedora for about six months, and recently switched to Ubuntu.
Here in Ubuntu, there is no code/syntax highlighting for groovy in Vi editor, which was actually there in Fedora Vi. How to enable that?
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How to use pygmentize automatically with less
I found pygmentize thanks to this answer, but it would be great if it could be used to highlight text with less or maybe replace the command.
Is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance.
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Syntax highlighting with less, trouble with lexer
I have installed python-pygments and using it for syntax highlighting with less as described by mankoff here
I put a function in my .bashrc
cless () {
pygmentize -f terminal "$1" | less -R
}
it is enabling syntax highlighting with less. But…
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How to add a new language definition for syntax highlighting in Gedit?
I've attempted to create a new .lang file for getting Gedit to recognize the Julia programming language. I have read the tutorial, the reference document and the wiki page Gedit/NewLanguage, and I believe the file to be correct. However, upon…
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How can I tell Gedit which syntax highlighting to apply?
For some godforsaken reason, Twig files in our source code are saved with a .html extension, instead of a .twig extension. I followed guidelines to add custom highlighting to Gedit, and the Twig highlighter I found does attach to .html files (with…
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Highlight search results in GNOME Terminal?
Is there a way/plugin to highlight the searched strings in GNOME Terminal on Ubuntu (When using Ctrl+F or similar keys)? Not just a single result, but all which appear inside the window?
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