KEDIT: Syntax Coloring Enhancements

KEDIT Syntax Coloring Enhancements

KEDIT's syntax coloring facility highlights different types of text within a file, such as keywords, quoted strings, and comments. This makes it easier, for example, to tell which text is part of a comment, and to tell whether a string is properly quoted. Syntax coloring was one of the most popular features of KEDIT for Windows 1.0 and it has been significantly improved in KEDIT for Windows 1.5. Support for a number of additional languages is now built into KEDIT. In addition, syntax coloring is now user configurable, so that you can add new keywords for existing languages, and add support for new languages.

Built-in Language Support

In KEDIT for Windows 1.0, syntax coloring was only available for C programs and REXX programs. KEDIT for Windows 1.5 adds built-in support for HTML, Java, COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, and dBase, and for Windows Resource files and .INI files.

Syntax coloring is now applied by default to files with the following extensions:

Extension	Parser	Description
.BAS	BASIC	BASIC language
.FRM	BASIC	Used with Visual BASIC
.C	C	C/C++ language
.COB	COBOL	COBOL language
.COBOL	COBOL	COBOL language
.CBL	COBOL	COBOL language
.CPP	C	C/C++ language
.CXX	C	C/C++ language
.DLG	RESOURCE	Windows Resource file
.FOR	FORTRAN	FORTRAN language
.FORTRAN	FORTRAN	FORTRAN language
.F90	FORTRAN	FORTRAN language
.F	FORTRAN	FORTRAN language
.H	C	C/C++ language
.HPP	C	C/C++ language
.HXX	C	C/C++ language
.HTM	HTML	HyperText Markup Language
.HTML	HTML	HyperText Markup Language
.INI	INIT	INI file
.JAV	JAVA	Java language
.JAVA	JAVA	Java language
.KEX	REXX	REXX/KEXX language
.KLD	KLD	KEDIT Language Definition file
.KML	REXX	REXX/KEXX language
.PAS	PASCAL	Pascal and Delphi language
.DPR	PASCAL	Delphi Project file
.PRG	XBASE	dBase or similar language
.RC	RESOURCE	Windows Resource file
.REX	REXX	REXX/KEXX language