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I'm looking for an editor I can easily add to or change rules for syntax highlighting
I'm using Atom on an Ubuntu based system and almost love it.
However, I want to change the syntax highlighting rules without having to dig into Atom. Atom's looks to be amazingly powerfully and flexibly customizable, but it's far too much for me.
What I most want to do is control the colors for individual things like, for example, /****comments***/ and I'd like to have it recognize variable type names by more than just the underscore-t at the end. My initials are dk, so I'd like to name my variable types with an underscore-d-k.
exmpletypename_dk
And have them highlit with the same, or a similar color to underscore-t type names.
That's the total extent of the changes I want to make. So Atom seems overkill for my purposes.
Sorry for the rambling nature of this post. I'm just fuzzy this morning.
Distribution: Slackware_x64 15.0 and slackware-current
Posts: 33
Rep:
Geany!!! This is my all-time favorite - Multi-platform, you can edit the syntax highlight color schema, easy to use and learn - lots of cool plugins ( I wrote a BASH script that tidies my BASH scripts even!) Supports a whole bunch of programming languages...
Not in the list, and the ide I use constantly: theide
Back when I was searching for a good ide, I have tried most of those in the sticky-list
but most fell short for some or all of the following reasons:
- non-intuitive-ui,
- failure to implement 'standard' features,
- complex coding requirements for simple concepts,
- platform restrictions,
- strange & complex project structures,
- unclear/slow/dead updates & developing (of the ide itself)
- + .. + .. + ..
and I always came back to theide. It is now my main dev-tool for all platforms/OS's.
It takes about half-a-day to find your feet & then you'll wonder why you wasted
your time with any of the others.
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