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  1. jay
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    Hi Mark, I hope you don't rush the release of v5, because I still have suggestions! Are you planning to develop Araneae as an all-around text editor? With syntax highlighting for most of the popular languages? For ASP files, all the script lines are just colored red, and that isn't very helpful. Maybe you can add user-configurable keywords for syntax highlighting.

  2. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 9 years ago

    Araneae 5 will support many different syntax highlighting schemes.

  3. alibaba
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    if so, then be sure to include support for PHP and C.

  4. epp_b
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    ...And CSS

  5. epp_b
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    Hey Mark, can you put in a syntax hilighting feature for "Bad Tags"?

  6. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 9 years ago

    I suppose that's possible, although it won't be well suited to XHTML where you can have tags from other namespaces, etc. I'll think about it.

  7. epp_b
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    hmmmm...maybe you could add an option for toggling XML mode on or off in order to allow the program to recognize bad tags or not.

  8. epp_b
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    Oops! and XHTML :-//

  9. Anonymous

    Posted 1 year ago

    I have downloaded version 5.0.0 and have now lost the coloured sntax..how do I get that back. All black and white texct is too hard on my eyes. Thanks, Gumnut

  10. Anonymous

    Posted 1 year ago

    also, I registered to be part of the forum but my password has not apepared. Cheers, Gumnut.

  11. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 1 year ago

    if Araneae 5 isn't highlighting your document, it's most likely because it doesn't know what type of document it is. Normally Araneae detects your type of document type by its file extension, but not all documents are recognized off-the-bat. Click on the "File" menu and select the document type from the list of available documents. Once a new document type is selected, Araneae will apply its syntax highlighting rules to your file. (There are also more document types are available for download online from the Araneae site, if you don't happen to see the kind you're working on).

    Once you select a document type, Araneae will remember it the next time you open the same file. If you'd like to permanently assign a document type to a specific file extension, that can be done from the options screen as well. You'll find it under the "File Extensions" section of the Options screen, which is available from the Tools menu.


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