Visual Studio with simple syntax colouring?

Posted By: W3bbo | Sep 28th @ 10:24 AM
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#Sep 28th @ 10:24 AM
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

A lot of people sing the praises of programs like Notepad2 and jedit because they offer syntax colouring for pretty much every language under the sun, which is great for toe-dipping exercises in things like Haskell or quick programs you'll manually compile later.

 

Visual Studio doesn't offer this functionality by default. Has anyone written an add-in for VS that adds the ability to edit any text file and get syntax highlighting for it? It goes without saying that integration with a compiler won't be needed, nor will debugging or any kind of "intelligent" processing like IntelliSense.

 

Although, come to think about it, integrating the compiler into a simple build system with the "Errors" and "Output" window would be nice.

#Sep 28th @ 2:08 PM
dahat
dahat

Has anyone written an add-in for VS that adds the ability to edit any text file and get syntax highlighting for it?

 

Given the way the Syntax Coloring Service works, you would likley have to pick a provider for the file type you are working on. From what I gather though creating your own shouldn't be that hard.

#Sep 28th @ 3:19 PM
magicalclick
magicalclick

Don't we already have class in color green, and error with curly red underline, quote in blue, and so on? Not sure too much color is productive.

#Sep 28th @ 3:39 PM
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

I liked how Dreamweaver put functions/members in a subtle purple (of course, it wasn't an intelligent syntax colourer, it just coloured known members from ADO purple ) but that and auto-complete for hashtables (when the key was known) were the only things from Dreamweaver that I miss in VS. (Although it has been 5 years since I last used Dreamweaver, so I don't know if it's changed since)

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