Description

In 0.84 you could switch between styles in View -> Styles ->

Starting from 0.85 the option moved to Tools -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Style ->

You can also create your own style:

To set up a custom syntax highlighting scheme, you create a .yml file that defines a mapping from syntactic elements to colors. The easiest way to create your own scheme is probably to copy an existing style file (for instance, default.yml) from the share/styles/ folder of Padre. Put it in styles subdirectory of your padre configuration directory, and then modify it. Padre checks this folder on start-up and adds any styles in the YAML files there to the list of available styles.

You can find out where is the Padre configuration directory on your computer by looking at Help -> About -> System Info -> Config

Tickets

Ticket	Resolution	Summary	Owner	Reporter
#1477		default color scheme is too flickering		vsespb
#1348		Add support for additional keyword lists in Scintilla LexPerl		submersible_toaster
#1331		Specially Handle Escaped characters		ktaragorn
#1284		osx Wx::Scintilla .21_04 causes Padre to scroll poorly	azawawi	tome
#1282	invalid	Wx::Scintilla v0.21_02 and TABS	azawawi	bowtie
#1233		syntax highlighting for specific heredocs		zenogantner
#1215	wontfix	Cannot change the syntax highlighter of Perl 6		szabgab
#1214	duplicate	highlight variables interpolated into strings		szabgab
#1205		When getting the color scheme from Notepad++, get MY color scheme		Lady_Aleena
#1194	not relevant	PPI Experimental & Skeleton Build		bowtie
#1191		Disable highligher during mass open	azawawi	Sewi
#1109	fixed	PPI Lexer crash when loading file		zenogantner
#1028	invalid	Syntax highlighting in Padre using Colorer		szabgab
#1011		Syntax highlighting for Perl examples inside POD		zenogantner
#994	wontfix	PPI syntax highlighter does not highlight some keywords/built-in functions		zenogantner
#993	fixed	BibTeX files: Scintilla is not shown as highlighter in the status bar		zenogantner
#916	fixed	Perl syntax highlighting: highlight interpolated variables and special characters in strings		zenogantner
#914		Syntax highlighting for POD files		zenogantner
#913	fixed	almost no syntax highlighting for C code		zenogantner
#779		Add support for Template Toolkit files		adamk
#751		Proper XS lexing/highlighting		tsee
#745		[Perl 5 syntax highlighting] delimiter used in extended regular expressions displays wrong	azawawi	daxim
#618	wontfix	Minimalistic syntax highlighter?		Floyd-ATC
#480	fixed	Custom style setting fails to load on padre restart		bricas
#305	not relevant	Make it extreamly easy to add a syntax highlighter manage them		szabgab
#251	wontfix	Disable syntax highlighting after __END__ keyword		dlp
#101	fixed	syntax highlighting gone wrong: dor (//) not understood	azawawi	jquelin
#6	fixed	Support the highlighting of more file types		szabgab

Test

1. In Tools/Preferences/Files? and Colors Select File Type: Perl 5 Select Highlighter: Scintilla
2. Using File/Open? open the file t/files/no_strict.pl
3. The status bar at the bottom should now show: the name of the file | Scintilla | Perl 5 | (and some more)
4. In Tools/Preferences/Files? and Colors Select File Type: Perl 5 Select Highlighter: PPI Experimental
5. Viewing the already open no_strict.pl file the status bar at the bottom should now show: the name of the file | PPI Experimental | Perl 5 | (and some more) The coloring of the code has changed.
6. In Tools/Preferences/Files? and Colors Select File Type: Perl 5 Select Highlighter: PPI Standard
7. Viewing the already open no_strict.pl file the status bar at the bottom should now show: the name of the file | PPI Standard | Perl 5 | (and some more)

Who	Padre version	system	status
szabgab	r13895	Ubuntu 10.10	OK

TODO

• add screenshots with default highlighting of the various syntax highlighers
• other programming languages
• syntax highlighting (coloring):
  • HTML export #112
  • customizable
  • for many languages