Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]
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).
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 [duplicate]
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)
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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 ...
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How to use pygmentize automatically with less [duplicate]
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
}
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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 ...
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Creating Highlighted PDF from JSON
I have a JSON file and would like to create a pdf containing the pretty printed and syntax highlighted version of that JSON file.
Is there any way to do that in Ubuntu?
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How to add support of scala syntax highlighting in VIM?
How to configure VIM to be able to highlight scala language (.scala files extension)?
Current VIM configuration (.vimrc file):
:syntax on
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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 ...
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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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How to get QML syntax highlighting in gedit?
QML files opened with gedit don't have syntax highlighting. Is there a package providing a gtksourceview lang.spec file for QML? If not, has anyone written a lang.spec than can be installed locally?
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How to change syntax color in vim? [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. But vim is not showing the proper syntax colors and also the mode in which you are like insert mode. So can anyone help me how to solve the issue?
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How do I get terminator to use syntax highlighting?
When sifting through large amounts of input and output in my terminal emulator (terminator in this case) it would come in handy if I had some syntax highlighting available to make things more readable....
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Is there a graphical pager with syntax highlighting?
Is there a graphical application in the repositories which has keyboard controls like the command-line application "less" and also has syntax highlighting?
I would like it to have arrow keys that ...
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In Nano is there a way to have nanorc settings apply to just one filetype/syntax?
Background: To enable Nano's syntax highlighting I have configured various shared .nanorc files with the format /usr/share/nano/*.nanorc, eg /usr/share/nano/python.nanorc
This works well but I keep ...
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Nano syntax highlighting for C# and/or ASP.Net
Has anyone got (or can point in the direction of) a nanorc file that contains syntax highlighting for C# and/or ASP.Net?
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Why does Vim highlight Javadoc comments like this?
I am using vim to edit Java code. I added a Javadoc header above the class definition, but the syntax highlighting is very strange:
read the Javadoc comment above
Why is the first sentence ...
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KDevelop and custom syntax coloring
I am currently trying out KDevelop 5.2.1 for a C++ project on Ubuntu 18 and so far, everything is working as expected, except syntax coloring. I have not been able to personalize it the way I want. ...
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How can I add Markdown syntax highligting to Pluma in 16.04 LTS?
I'm using Pluma on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS and I see that it does not support syntax highlighting for Markdown lightweight markup language.
But I know that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (and newer versions) have ...
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How to change the path to the folder of the XML syntax files? (gedit)
Any clue about the variable to be changed in order for gedit to read XML files in another folder?
Currently syntax files are in:
/usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs
I'd like gedit to read ...
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How to make geany or vi understand Maxima (or any other less known) syntax
I tend to program a lot in a symbolic language called Maxima, but I haven't found any editor that highlights its syntax. Is there I way I can make vi or geany (or whatever) understand this syntax and ...
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VIM does not detect syntax of .ssh/config
On a plain Ubuntu installation (12.04 in my case) when I have no ~/.vimrc VIM does not detect syntax of .ssh/config.
Syntax highlighting works, but it does not set the correct filetype.
vi ~/.ssh/...
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Vi syntax highlighting for words followed by a parenthesis
I want to change the color of a keyword that is followed by a left parenthesis in a .R file.
For instance, when I type length(), I want the word length to be highlighted (and not the parentheses), ...
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What's up with Gedit's HTML highlighting?
I've been learning some HTML code recently, and something weird is up with Gedit's highlighting. Whenever I try to use the <h3> tag, Gedit immediately cancels all the highlighting and the text ...
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Colored syntax and terminal when using SSH from terminal
Ok. So I use pico as a text editor. In ubuntu and when I ssh using putty I have colored syntax and colored terminals. When I ssh through ubuntu terminal I have solid white text. I always ssh into my ...
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Is there a way to highlight a specific word in terminal?
I am using two switches that are very similar and I would like to colour each switch in a different colour.
So that any time that I will write in the command line that word - it will automatic ...
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gedit highlighting " CISCO IOS" can't find one
daily i 'm using gedit in order to configure Cisco devices
is there someone who created a cisco highlighting language ???
can't find one .... and it is a loooong way creating one from scratch....
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Disable syntax highlighting in Geany
I am trying to turn off syntax highlighting in Geany.
I tried commenting this out in filetype_extensions.conf.
Sh=*.sh;configure;configure.in;
As a temporary fix, I changed file extension of files ...
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Enable syntax coloring in Geany?
Online all the examples for Geany have syntax coloring, but I couldn't figure out how to enable this feature. I downloaded Geany, then created a new python file, but whenever as I type a keyword, ...
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How can I print PHP syntax highlighting on a colour printer?
This must have been answered before, but I simply cannot find the answer either here or elsewhere.
I edit a PHP file in gedit, which is all nicely coloured for syntax.
But when I want to print it, ...
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Gedit bash highlight
When I edit bash script(first line is #!/bin/bash) in GEdit, there is no highlighting. But with View->Highlight Mode, there is no result when searching "bash" or "script", which to choose?
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Create PostScript file from vim
How can I open a script file and automatic create the PostScript file?
Now I use:
vim file.py
and inside :ha > text.ps.
The problem is that the command have to go inside a bash script. How can I ...
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vim syntax highlighting ubuntu touch
I'm trying to get syntax highlighting working while using vim.
:version
gives me: "Small version without GUI".
I installed both "vim-gui-common" and "vim-runtime", but everytime I issue the command
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How to highlight Non-consecutive text in Gedit?
Is there any short-cut/keyboard command to highlight, i.e., select, non-consecutive text in gedit?
For instance, say I want to highlight the words there and text in the previous sentence at the same ...
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syntax highlighting in vi changed after upgrading Ubuntu 16.04
First, read this question below:
problem in terminal syntax highlighting
It also changed the default syntax highlighting in terminal after upgrading UBUNTU.
There is a difference between ver.14 and ...
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How to add global syntax highlight in nano
I use nano as my text editor for development, so I would want trailing spaces to be highlighted.
Right now I am just adding the line:
color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
to all the files included on my ....
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Gedit PHP syntax highlighting
Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I have PHP inline to HTML. There's an opening quotation and the inline PHP also has a quote, but Gedit thinks it's the closing quote for the HTML.
Add this to ...
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Change color scheme in Kate
I'm looking to change the color scheme in Kate to something else (e.g Solarized, Zenburn, etc).
I tried the instructions found in Using “Oblivion” color scheme from Gedit in Kate, but nothing changed ...
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Is there a way to get Smarty syntax highlight in gedit?
I'm using smarty to develop a website and I need syntax highlighting. Currently gedit only highlights the html. Since my tpl files contains only html and smarty template functions.
I've Google'd for ...
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How to enable syntax highlighting in vi while using the global command?
Opening a file with vi nicely highlights its contents.
However, I want to view the file with all lines containing clock_gettime hidden. By using the global command :g!/clock_gettime I get the ...
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Forcing gedit to recognize .kv files
On Ubuntu, the language that defines syntax highlighting for kivy layout files is installed by default (or added automatically when installing kivy). The problem is, in gedit, I have to manually ...
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IntelliJ syntax highlighting for PHP
I installed IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu 16.04 to use Symfony. There is syntax highlighting for .yml files, but there is no syntax highlighting for .php files. How to add syntax highlighting for .php files ...
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gnome-terminal highlight URLs ending in close-paren
When gnome-terminal 3.6.2 highlights a URL ending in ), it incorrectly omits that ). Such URLs are found in wikis with disambiguation pages, such as http://zelda.gamepedia.com/Ocarina_of_Time_(Item), ...
