Slick V3.3 manual Color Coding Setup Options General Dialog Settings, Tokens Tab

Color Coding Setup Dialog

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Color Coding Setup Options - General Dialog Settings

The following fields and buttons are available on the Color Coding Setup dialog:

•Lexer name - Select the language that you wish to work with from the Lexer name drop-down list. Be sure to select the lexer you wish to affect before using the tabs to make settings.

•New - Click this button, located next to Lexer name, to prompt for a lexer name to start a new lan- guage-specific color coding definition (see Creating Color Coding for a New Language).

•Delete - Click this button, located next to Lexer name, to remove a lexer name from the list. You can only delete user-created lexers.

•Colors - Click this button at the bottom of the dialog to display the Color Settings dialog, which allows you to specify the color for color coding elements and other editor elements (see Setting Colors for Screen Elements).

Tokens Tab

The Tokens tab, shown below, provides the capability to specify unique tokens to help you when working with your code. To access these settings, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Color Coding setting and select the Tokens tab.

Figure 10.50. Color Coding Setup: Tokens Tab

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