Syntax Highlighting Text Editor
Digest
The syntax-highlighting text editor is a feature present beginning with version 6.4. The editor is available when creating and editing the following assets/components:
- Script Formats
- XSLT Format
- Templates
- Workflow Definitions
- Data Definitions
- Plain Text Files with chooser for the following file types (when the file has the listed extension, the syntax is chosen automatically):
- Basic (.bas, .basic)
- ColdFusion (.cfc)
- CSS (.css)
- HTML (.htm, .html)
- Java (.java)
- Javascript (.js)
- Perl (.pl, .perl, .cgi)
- PHP (.php)
- Python (.py)
- Ruby (.rb, .ruby)
- Robots.txt (robots.txt)
- SQL (.sql)
- T-SQL
- Visual Basic (.vb)
- XML (.xml)
Concept
Toggling the Editor
The syntax-highlighting text editor can be turned on/off using the "Advanced Editor" button at the bottom of the editor. Users simply uncheck the box to turn off the editor.
*Note - the edit-area syntax highlighter currently cannot be turned on/off at the global and/or Site level by administrators. It is enabled by default for the objects listed above in the Digest, and can be turned off at the individual object level each time one is used/created. However, this change does not stick, meaning the next time they load that object time, the highlighter is re-enabled.
Toolbar Buttons
The syntax-highlighting text editor featues the following toolbar buttons (from left to right):
- Search
- Goto Line
- Fullscreen
- Undo
- Redo
- Font Size
- File Type (when editing a text file)
- Disable display features (helps with slower computers)
- Syntax Highlighting (turns of syntax highlighting but keeps editor)
- Reset Highlighting
- Word Wrap