On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, John Culleton wrote: > On Friday 02 November 2007 08:12:31 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested >> by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying the experience of using them! >> >> However, I do not really like the colour scheme and tried to alter the >> background colours by editing "Application >> Data/Notepad++/UserDefineLang.xml", shutting down Notepad++ and starting >> up again (via Npp.bat), but no change. I also tried editing the "tex" >> entry in "Application Data/Notepad++/stylers.xml", but no joy. >> I tried going to menu item Settings - Style Configurator, but Context >> isn't in the list of languages. >> >> How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please? >> >> Richard Stephens > > You might have more luck with Vim/Gvim which has an open-ended syntax > highlighting scheme with almost 500 files named e.g., cobol.vim in the > subdirectory syntax. It will do automatic sensing by suffix but you can > manually select one too. It even has one for Context. > > You can modify the syntax files if you like or create new ones but either > task looks like an all-day project to me.
I would like to disagree here. I love vim, and use it for all my editing tasks, but it is not easy to write a syntax file for vim. Simple syntax is easy, but getting correct syntax highlighting for context is a hard thing. I have been writing one syntax file for almost a year now, but it is not perfect. The difficulty is doing context sensitive highlighting. For example, for \setupwhatver[key=value] I want setupwhatever to be blue, and key=value to be red. Now sometimes, value is be a series of context commands entered as key={value}. In that case, I want everything in brackets to be hightlighted as the default context hightlighting (rather than red), so that if I make a mistake in the long statement, the syntax highlighting can help me. This is ok, but things gets hard when you want to do \setupwhatever[before={\setupsomething[key=value]}]. And now, the same problem for key=value setting in the nested setup command. There are other things which are difficult. \type is one command which I can never get to work. It is easy to get things like \type|command| or \type+command+ or \type{command} to give the correct highlighting, but something like \type{\command{parameter}} is hard. I could not find enough hooks in the vim syntax highlighting to get everything that I want. I have not really looked at how configurable the highlighting features of other languages are. But what I want to say here is that writing syntax highlighting for context is hard. And it is certainly not a one day project. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________