On 12 February 2012 21:00, Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com> wrote:

On 13 February 2012 07:46, Damon McMinn <damonrmcminn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> New to Geany (and programming).
>
> I would very much like to have escape sequences highlighted in a similar way
> to gedit. I've searched high and low for an explanation on how to achieve
> this and have come up empty. I'm sure it's very simple, however it's a
> mystery to me! I have attached a screenshot to visually explain what I mean.

The reason you can't find how to do it is that it isn't possible.
Scintilla (www.scintilla.org) is the editing component that does the
lexing for the highlighting, and it doesn't separate escapes from
strings.

To do it you would have to change the C++ code of the lexer in Scintilla

Cheers
Lex

>
> Also, I realise I'm not using the default color scheme. I have tested with
> the default color scheme and still don't have the highlighting I seek.
>
> Unsure if it's pertinent but am using 0.20.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Damon McMinn
>

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