[Pythonmac-SIG] syntax highlighting in PythonIDE

Just van Rossum just at letterror.com
Mon Nov 3 12:16:52 EST 2003


Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:

> A quick question:
> 
> How does one turn on syntax highlighting in PythonIDE? I'm sure its 
> there somewhere if it is truly an IDE, but I cannot seem to find the 
> switch.

Look for Wtext.py, and replace

        self.do_fontify = 0

with

        self.do_fontify = True

It's turned off by default since it's pretty crappy... There's a secret
shortcut to recolorize the entire window: cmd-shift-d.

Just



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