I'm editing a shell script and I'd like to get a bit of syntax colour. I
can't see anything in preferences so I went online.
The first hit looked good. That article pointed to a plugin that was
listed in official NetBeans plugins:
http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/68049/nbshell. Unfortunately that
plugin doesn't appear when I select the old sources in the plugins dialog.
The second hit said "simply install the C/C++ plugin by going to
Tools->Plugins->Available Plugins and ticking the C/C++ box." I tried
doing that At the validation step I get errors.
The validation of downloaded plugins cannot be completed, cause: NBM
/Applications/NetBeans/Apache NetBeans
12.3.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/netbeans/cnd/update/download/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-kit.nbm
needs unpack200 to process following entries:
netbeans/modules/locale/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-kit_ja.jar.pack.gz
netbeans/modules/locale/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-kit_pt_BR.jar.pack.gz
netbeans/modules/locale/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-kit_ru.jar.pack.gz
netbeans/modules/locale/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-kit_zh_CN.jar.pack.gz
netbeans/modules/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-kit.jar.pack.gz
Is there a way to have shell syntax highlighting without having to
install the entire C++ plugin?
I've copied my setup info, in case it was of any help with the error
message above.
*Product Version:* Apache NetBeans IDE 12.3
*Updates:* NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.2 Patch 2
<http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeans8.2PatchesInfo>
*Java:* 14.0.1; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 14.0.1+7
*Runtime:* Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 14.0.1+7
*System:* Mac OS X version 10.15.7 running on x86_64; UTF-8; en_NZ (nb)
*User directory:* /Users/malcolm/Library/Application Support/NetBeans/12.3
*Cache directory:* /Users/malcolm/Library/Caches/NetBeans/12.3
Malcolm
