{"id":79,"date":"2007-09-04T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2007\/09\/04\/editor-syntax-colors-for-non-m-file-types\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T13:53:35","slug":"editor-syntax-colors-for-non-m-file-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2007\/09\/04\/editor-syntax-colors-for-non-m-file-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor syntax colors for non-M file types"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently had a customer ask me how to make his mex files have correct syntax highlighting. He had a file type that was not specified in our default preferences. This is very easy to fix using preferences.<\/p>\n

Here is an example. I have to edit info.xml files a lot because one of the things that I work on is the start button. But when I edit an xml file there is no syntax highlighting. <\/p>\n

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If the editor hightlights the file as html, it does a pretty good job of syntax highlighting. To make xml files syntax highlight as an html file, go to the Editor Language preference panel (File->Preferences->Editor->Language). Select “HTML” from the Language combobox.<\/p>\n

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This will open the html highlighting panel. Near the bottom of this panel is a File Extensions list that shows which files will be highlighted using this set of colors. <\/p>\n

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Click on the “Add” button and type “xml” into the dialog. <\/p>\n

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Hit OK to exit the dialog and OK to exit the preference panel. <\/p>\n

Close the file and re-open it<\/b> to see the changes. <\/p>\n

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From this point forward, all xml files will be colored as html files. You can associate any file type with M, C\/C++, Java, or HTML highlighting sets. <\/p>\n

And because I predict that you will ask, we are considering linking xml files to the html color set by default in a future release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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