I checked and syntax highlight was already checked.. I did figure it out though.. all my pascal files were named with a .PAS extension and I keep forgetting that linux is extremely case sensitive with everything.. I saved one with a .pas extention, closed it then opened it and now that one file has the highlight, the others do not.. easy enough to fix that though.
Thank you for the help and suggestions to tweak the colors! I would have never figured that out! Nice I can customize it too. I can't figure out how to do that with windows. I would like to get a black background instead of blue. Thanks also for the suggestion of MSEIde I will check it out! -----Original Message----- From: fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 7:41 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Linux Port help On 2016-07-22 23:33, James Richters wrote: > Here are screenshots: > https://github.com/Zaaphod/FPC-Parallel-Port/issues/1 I just checked. My FreeBSD version looks like the Windows screenshot. Also under Linux, load the IDE, then go to Options -> Environment -> Editor. Then under "Editor options" make sure "Syntax highlighting" is checked. If I uncheck that and open a new *.pas file, then mine is all blue and yellow text. Something else to tweak. If you prefer the darker blue (Windows screenshot) instead of the lighter blue (Linux screenshot). Those colors are affected by your terminal program's console theme. eg: I use Mate Terminal here. Go to Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Colours. Change the Palette scheme to "Linux console" or "Rxvt". Those are my preferences. Some Linux systems default that to "Tango" which are much lighter colours. > I like the text ide because I understand it, it's pretty much like > the Turbo Pascal ide. I fully understand. Sometimes I use the Text IDE too, to get rid of all clutter and distractions seen so often in other IDE's or text editors. But I forgot all the keyboard shortcuts, then I get frustrated with it, and switch back to Lazarus or MSEide. MSEide is also a very nice, flexible and super fast IDE. They can all handle console programs without problems. MSEide https://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/ You can download the IDE zip archive, unpack and run the binary. No need for any installations. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
