Excellent program, really matured since I last took a look. I read in a post here that hl.cfg can contain custom syntax highlighting, can you enlighten me as to the format of the xml for this as currently the file only contains the xml PI and a root element. We use a custom content engine that I would love to syntax highlight in phped.

my hl.cfg now seems to have all the xml for preset syntax highlighting, I added my own and even added it to filetypes in phped.cfg but doesn't seem to have worked, any ideas?? can this be done??

What syntax highlighting are you trying to add ?
C# or Ada ?
Or maybe something else ?

It is for a custom content engine that we use, I was just wondering if it is possible to create our own syntax file for it. I already have one for use in UltraEdit my current default editor. Currently my company use a range of editors and I would like to standardise where possible to a single editor. With its PHP debugging capabilities PHPed is currently the front runner. It would just be nice to be able to create my own syntax definitions.

No, phped 3.3 does not support custom syntax schemes. Probably with a next version it will.

Hi again, Dmitry.

Have just upgraded PHPEd build to 4620 searching for this feature...

We need to add a new highlighting scheme for custom tags.
Here's a code example:



To make long story short: we have our custom <com:* ... /> tags.
No matter how I tried to play with reserved keywords, predefined functions,
different syntax schemes or dynamic syntax highlighting nothing worked.

Another example of such a limitation (this is no more actual) is to change
Smarty delimiters (library expects such a customization) however, phped
only supports { and }.

Is it possible to configure parsers using this hl.cfg file? Possibly, no...

Any solution?

it's not possible in v4.6. We'll try to implement tag-specific highlighting in one of the next versions.


Aha, Smarty supports different delimiters and we already got a request to support multicharacter delimiters like these "(*" "*)".
Yet it's not that simple and we can't implement it in 4.6. At least multicharacter. Although we'll consider doing it for one of the next versions.

started to evaluate phped 4.6 today dimitri, finally

One of the features we'd like is to be able to use multi-character delimiters in smarty and have our ide pick up on this. We use {? and ?} as delimiters which aids us greating when writing oo-javascript code in smarty templates.