Re: [ jEdit-users ] how to enable (X)HTML highlighting?

[Alan E. <ala...@gm...>]

http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/modes.html

Edit Modes

An edit mode specifies syntax highlighting rules, auto indent
behavior, and various other customizations for editing a certain file
type. This section only covers using existing edit modes; information
about writing your own can be found in Part II, “Writing Edit Modes”.

When a file is opened, jEdit first checks the file name against a list
of known patterns. For example, files whose names end with .c are
opened with C mode, and files named Makefile are opened with Makefile
mode. If a suitable match based on file name cannot be found, jEdit
checks the first line of the file. For example, files whose first line
is #!/bin/sh are opened with shell script mode.
Mode Selection

File name and first line matching is done using glob patterns similar
to those used in Unix shells. Glob patterns associated with edit modes
can be changed in the Editing pane of the Utilities>Global Options
dialog box. Note that the glob patterns must match the file name or
first line exactly; so to match files whose first line contains begin,
you must use a first line glob of *begin*. See Appendix D, Glob
Patterns for a description of glob pattern syntax.

The default edit mode for files which do not match any pattern can be
set in the Editing pane as well.

The edit mode can be specified manually as well. The current buffer's
edit mode can be set on a one-time basis in the Utilities>Buffer
Options dialog box; see the section called “The Buffer Options Dialog
Box”. To set a buffer's edit mode for future editing sessions, place
the following in one of the first or last 10 lines of the buffer,
where edit mode is the name of the desired edit mode:

:mode=edit mode:

Syntax Highlighting

Syntax highlighting is the display of programming language tokens
using different fonts and colors. This makes code easier to follow and
errors such as misplaced quotes easier to spot. All edit modes except
for the plain text mode perform some kind of syntax highlighting.

The colors and styles used to highlight syntax tokens can be changed
in the Syntax Highlighting pane of the Utilities>Global Options dialog
box; see the section called “The Syntax Highlighting Pane”.

2011/1/23 Roy Stannard <roy...@gm...>:
> Hi,
> I posted this query in the jEdit users forum, but I think it might be better
> to post here.
>
> Anyhow, this is the issue. I had to reinstall jEdit recently and I can't
> work out how to enable html tag highlighting showing the enclosed code
> block. At the moment, all I'm getting when I click on one of the angle
> brackets of a tag is the other one getting indicated with the cursor. This
> is not very useful when editing (X)HTML pages. Also, when editing a php
> file, how can I get the php specific tags to be highlighted differently to
> HTML?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> I think I double posted this. Sorry
>
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