syntax switching

Pavel Tsekov ptsekov at gmx.net
Tue Jan 31 13:46:45 UTC 2006


On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> Hello Andy,
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:55 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Arny (one of developers of MPlayer) made patch for mc old version. I
> > catch the syntax highlighting toggle feature from it and adopt to a last
> > FC package. I hope, the switcher of syntax highlightind is a usefull
> > feature and should like to be added to mainstream.
>
> I would prefer it if this patch could be integrated with the new Syntax
> Highlighting dialog in the Options menu. A checkbox that respects this
> toggle and an Ok button need to be added to that dialog. Maybe the
> aforementioned developer could complete his patch in this respect?

There is such toggle already in the editor configuration dialog box.
The point of this patch is to let the user quickly switch syntax
highlighting on and of (IMO).

> Note that you can already toggle the syntax highlighting by choosing
> "unknown" in that dialog. (This is not meant as an argument against a
> global toggle.)

But that is not as fast as a single key press.




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