Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting
On 01/13/2020 06:13 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020, at 11:52, Richard Owlett wrote:
I was looking for a description of what Pluma was trying to accomplish
by their highlighting rules.
Do you understand the purpose of syntax highlighting (in general)?
Yes. Its specific goal is to aid a programmer WHILE coding.
However, I'm trying to understand a vendor supplied bash script.
One reference explicitly said that Pluma associates a "sh" extension
with the text being a bash script {matches my use case}.
[snip]
That apart, it would help enormously if you posted a screenshot of what
you're seeing, and some explanation of why you think the colouring is
wrong.
I have no reason to suspect there are errors in the code.
While initially working through the code, the chosen highlighting seemed
consistent as how I interpreted the code.
There are cases where I would expect different keywords to have the same
highlighting -- they didn't.
The implication is that Pluma's highlighting is attempting to convey
information that I am not receiving.
Therefore I need to know what Pluma's goal was.
Thank you.
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