Restore Lexer Styles?

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » 27.10.2021 06:59

I was planning on uninstalling SynWrite. So I have anything like icons, lexers, etc, are in a folder called Backup in the CT folder.

I don't know batch code, so I'll have to stick to hitting the enter key 38 times lol I'll look into it though to see if I can figure it out. Thanks for your help.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » 28.10.2021 09:45

main Alexey wrote:You can just copy (using Batch file) folder data/lexlib from Synwrite to CT, it is the same as installing all these zip's.

Sorry to bother you on this again. Could you please elaborate clearly on what exactly the catch file needs to do please.

Does it simply copy the files from SynWrite folder to CT folder? But then if that's all that's needed, then you could do that manually, and CT would just load them, wouldn't it? I'm confused how it works and why it's not possible to just have a specified directory for SynWrite lexers which are then used if found?

main Alexey · Post by **main Alexey** » 28.10.2021 10:33

In SynWrite you have dir Data/LexLib. it contains lexer files.
In CT you have dir data/lexlib (case is not important on Windows). if you want to install Synw's lexers to CT,

- delete cudatext/data/lexlib
- copy synwrite/data/lexlib to cudatext/data/lexlib

>if that's all that's needed, then you could do that manually, and CT would just load them, wouldn't it?
Yes.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » 28.10.2021 12:09

Superb, thank you.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » 28.10.2021 19:16

I assume this will need to be done on each update?

main Alexey · Post by **main Alexey** » 28.10.2021 19:50

Yes, each time you update the data/ folder. But better don't do that - Synwrite lexers are copied from OLD CT lexers, they are missing last year update.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » 28.10.2021 21:04

main Alexey wrote:Yes, each time you update the data/ folder. But better don't do that - Synwrite lexers are copied from OLD CT lexers, they are missing last year update.

Sorry, what do you mean? It's I need to copy on each update, but don't as they're out of date?
How else can I change the Lexers to suit my coloured syntax highlighting?

I read in the manual, I think, that SynWrite is still used for editing and creating Lexers, is that still right? Which would mean that copying them from the Syn folder to the CT folder is the only way to use your own syntax highlighters, yes?

Do you plan on adding these features to CT at some point?

main Alexey · Post by **main Alexey** » 28.10.2021 22:48

You can edit ALL features of lexer only in Synwrite. but you can edit lexer-styles in CT too. E.g. set the C lexer, in CT, and call menu "Options / lexers / lexer properties". In the "lexer properties" dlg, activate "Styles" tab and edit styles.

This tab of dlg is disabled if CT option "ui_lexer_themes": true. You can change option to 'false' and edit styles then. Styles are saved by CT to files *.cuda-lexops.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » 28.10.2021 22:55

Ok thanks, I'll try that out tomorrow.

main Alexey · Post by **main Alexey** » 28.10.2021 23:07

I wrote this info to the wiki today, https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Le ... tyles_only