Topic: Clarification of Help file (1 of 5), Read 21 times Conf: Program develop.,Color syntax From: John H Date: Friday, December 16, 2005 05:30 PM Hi, I wanted to ask how to interpret "up to ten entries" from the help on color syntax highlighting. "It is best to examine c.syn and use it as a prototype for creating your own syntax definition file. A .SYN file consists of up to ten entries beginning in column 1 with these keywords:" -- John VEDIT SN: 95651 VEDIT (DOS) Ver. 6.13.1 01/25/05 VEDIT (32-Bit) Ver. 6.13.1 01/25/05 VEDIT Pro (64-Bit) Ver. 6.13.1 01/25/05 Windows 2000 (5.0.2195 Service Pack 4)

Topic: Clarification of Help file (2 of 5), Read 19 times Conf: Program develop.,Color syntax From: Ian Binnie Date: Friday, December 16, 2005 07:30 PM On 12/16/2005 5:30:23 PM, John H wrote: >Hi, > >I wanted to ask how to >interpret "up to ten entries" >from the help >on color syntax highlighting. > There are 8 entries - which correspond to the Preferences/Syntax Colours. Plus 2 others. You can use all e.g. c.syn or only a few I have some .syn which only use 3 entries.

Topic: Clarification of Help file (3 of 5), Read 18 times Conf: Program develop.,Color syntax From: John H Date: Saturday, December 17, 2005 01:19 AM On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:30:47 -0500 GMT, Ian Binnie wrote: > On 12/16/2005 5:30:23 PM, John H wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I wanted to ask how to >>interpret "up to ten entries" >>from the help >>on color syntax highlighting. >> > There are 8 entries - which correspond to the Preferences/Syntax > Colours. Plus 2 others. > You can use all e.g. c.syn or only a few > I have some .syn which only use 3 entries. Hmm. I'm still having some cognitive problems. What is throwing me is that there are 14 keywords. -- John

Topic: Re: Clarification of Help file (4 of 5), Read 19 times Conf: Program develop.,Color syntax From: Christian Ziemski Date: Saturday, December 17, 2005 01:43 AM On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:19:00 -0500, John H wrote: >Hmm. I'm still having some cognitive problems. What is throwing me >is that there are 14 keywords. I guess Reserved1 Reserved2 Reserved3 Reserved4 Comment Linecmt Numeric Strings Escape Symbols are the 10 real entries and Casesense1 Casesense2 Casesense3 Casesense4 are only seen as "flags" or options for Reserved[1-4]. Christian

Topic: Clarification of Help file (5 of 5), Read 22 times Conf: Program develop.,Color syntax From: John H Date: Saturday, December 17, 2005 07:16 PM On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:43:57 -0500 GMT, Christian Ziemski wrote: > I guess [..] > are the 10 real entries and > Casesense1 > Casesense2 > Casesense3 > Casesense4 > are only seen as "flags" or options for Reserved[1-4]. Ah, that makes more sense now. Thanks! -- John