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Hi, is anyone aware of an Ada syntax highlighter for EDP?

Thanks
Mike

Unfortunately, there is none.

Why not allow users to define their syntax higlight rules for whatever file format they want?

Other programs solved the problem using syntax description files in a specific directory.
Each (text) file specify to which file extensions apply it, which are the keywords, how do detect comments and so on.

Something like also GeSHi (http://qbnz.com/highlighter/) does.

We are aware of these methods, perhaps this will be implemented in a future version.

Revisiting the thread to add my vote for user-defined syntax highlighting.
It could be done with an XML/JSON/INI file to classify various language elements using lists of values or regexps.

Arbitrary syntax highlighting would be great! It's useful if it's not limited just to programming languages - ie not constrained just to concepts like variable naes, procedure names, builtin functions, what's a number, commenting, program structure etc. It's also useful if it can be used to colour arbitrary formats of data files, log files etc.

Colouring aside, do any file-compare programs go further and compare based on the elements identified by the syntax-colouring scheme? I realise that word/token-based comparisons, already breaking lines up by spaces, parentheses, punctuation etc would eg show a difference in two lines if they contained differing variable names, but there might be situations where syntax-aware comparisons add more detail.