Hi Don,
Not offended at all...and no I am not color-blind.
My reason for requesting this is that I like to align text, especially in comments for viewing on the unix systems where most of my edited files end up. It's also nice when printing not only for the alignment but for ease of reading. I do all my printing on black and white laser printers and the font differences (including bolding) actually make it less readable to my eyes when you don't have the color differences.
Most of the time I want the highlighting so I like the idea of a switch to turn it off briefly while I write comments or check other text alignment. Depending on how you prefer to program it, disabling highlihting for printing could be accomplished by a switch in the preferences box or by disabling highlighting on the screen then printing.
Also, I just want to say this is my favorite editor, including several that I paid for. Thank You for all your work to make it so good!
Bob
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Thank you Jens. That wasn't the answer I wanted to hear but it's good to know the answer.
I was looking for something like a menu item, under "view" for example, that would allow you to choose to display the highlighting or not without changing the style.
If these posts are read for feature requests then please consider this a feature request.
Thanks,
Bob
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I'm sorry if this has been covered already. I think it must have been but I haven't found it in the FAQ or in the forum.
Is there a simple switch to turn the display of syntax highlighting on and off?
Also is there a simple way to disable syntax highlighting for printing?
Thanks,
Bob Helling
Hi Don,
Not offended at all...and no I am not color-blind.
My reason for requesting this is that I like to align text, especially in comments for viewing on the unix systems where most of my edited files end up. It's also nice when printing not only for the alignment but for ease of reading. I do all my printing on black and white laser printers and the font differences (including bolding) actually make it less readable to my eyes when you don't have the color differences.
Most of the time I want the highlighting so I like the idea of a switch to turn it off briefly while I write comments or check other text alignment. Depending on how you prefer to program it, disabling highlihting for printing could be accomplished by a switch in the preferences box or by disabling highlighting on the screen then printing.
Also, I just want to say this is my favorite editor, including several that I paid for. Thank You for all your work to make it so good!
Bob
The first thing I did was to change all the fonts to the same monospaced one.
It allows me to line up the comments with impunity.
YMMV.
Graham
Change the language style to "Normal Text".
Best Regards
Jens
Thank you Jens. That wasn't the answer I wanted to hear but it's good to know the answer.
I was looking for something like a menu item, under "view" for example, that would allow you to choose to display the highlighting or not without changing the style.
If these posts are read for feature requests then please consider this a feature request.
Thanks,
Bob
I'll consider it.
Don't be offensive : are you colour-blind?
Don