Slick V3.3 manual Creating Color Coding for a New Language, Color Coding Configuration

Color Coding Configuration

Creating Color Coding for a New Language

To create color coding support for your language, complete the following steps:

1.From the main menu, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Color Coding setting. The Color Coding Setup dialog box is displayed.

2.Select the Tokens Tab, then click New. The Enter New Keywords dialog box is displayed.

3.Enter the new lexer name. Usually this is a language name such as C or Java. Click OK.

4.On the Tokens tab, make sure the new keyword is selected, then correct the ID start characters. These are valid characters which can be the start of an identifier.

5.Correct the ID follow characters. These are additional characters which are valid after the start ID character. For example, digits are usually allowed in identifiers, but not as the first character of an iden- tifier.

6.Select the Comments Tab. This lists the comments currently defined and allows you to define new multi-line and line comments. For each comment, click New to add a line or multi-line comment.

7.Select the Numbers Tab to display various numeric style options.

8.Select the Strings Tab to display various string literal options.

9.If you have not found all the options you need, click the Language Tab. This displays some more ad- vanced language-specific options.

1Click OK on the Color Coding Setup dialog box.

Color Coding Configuration

The Color Coding Setup dialog provides the capability to specify colors for identifying your code. To con- figure color coding, from the main menu, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click Gen- eral in the tree, then double-click the Color Coding setting. The Color Coding Setup box is displayed.

Figure 6.17. Color Coding Setup: Tokens Tab

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