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    • Paul RichardsP
      Paul Richards
      last edited by

      Can anybody explain how I can get COBOL syntax highlighting working.

      I’ve downloaded the cobol and cobol-ac files from the N++ library, tried putting each one in the plugins/API forlder and chosen COBOL as the language required. All I get is a straight black background and white foregound display of code.

      Thanks

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      • dailD
        dail
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        To get the COBOL syntax highlighting you don’t need to download anything, it is built in. Use the menu Language > C > COBOL.

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        • Paul RichardsP
          Paul Richards
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          I’ve already tried that [Language > C > COBOL] with no effect. And COBOL is not listed among the languages in [Settings > Style Configurator] so, as I said, I’m just left with white text on a black background.

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          • Jim DaileyJ
            Jim Dailey
            last edited by

            Do you see syntax highlighting for any type of file? If not, in the Style Configurator, do you by chance have the Enable global foreground colour and Enable global background color checkboxes checked?

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            • Paul RichardsP
              Paul Richards
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              I see colour and highlighting for C and Objective-C but this appears to be controlled by the theme chosen i.e. Vibrant Ink. If, with a COBOL program open in N++, I choose C as the language I get colur and highlighting but it’s the same as for C and Objective-C.

              I don’t have the Enable Global foreground and background checkboxes checked. If I did I get yellow fg on orange bg.

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              • Jim DaileyJ
                Jim Dailey
                last edited by

                I think the problem (or at least an indication that the problem exists) is that you don’t see COBOL under Settings–>Style Configurator, but I have no idea why it wouldn’t be there.

                Perhaps some helpful NPP user one can answer that???

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                • dailD
                  dail
                  last edited by

                  by the theme chosen i.e. Vibrant Ink

                  Looks like Vibrant Ink doesn’t have any style configuration for COBOL. Only a few non-default themes have it for COBOL at all.

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