[SOLVED] Issues with syntax-highlighting

Masmiseim · Jan 4th 2021, 7:28pm

Hello Segger-Team,

I found some issues with syntax-highlighting in Embedded Studio, maybe you could solve those:

Ampersand in comments leads to a highlighted line:
If you enable the option “visible whitespace”, XML Files are not rendered correctly. For example, the project File:

vs.
When the options “visible whitespace” and “Highlight All Selected Text” are enabled, and a space is selected, then all tabs are highlighted while no other space is highlighted:

Selecting a tab highlight nothing.
Syntax-Highlighting in assembler Files ignores @ as start of comment, for example in the uCOS-II sources

C-Style-commends are shown as expected
One last thing, could you highlight the types from stdint like the native types.

Best Regards

SEGGER - Nino · Jan 25th 2021, 1:49pm

Hello,

Thank you for your inquiry.
1: Was not reproducible for me. Could you give the latest Embedded Studio a try? Do you still see this behaviour? If yes, could you post a code/comment snippet in the forum as a reproducer?
2: Is reproducible and will be improved.
3: Is not reproducible for me. Could you provide an examplefile with reproduction steps?
4: Is reproducible and will be improved.

Best regards,
Nino

Masmiseim · Jan 25th 2021, 11:09pm

Hello Nino,

find attached a simple project.

Open the File fsl_flexcan.h and scroll to line 675 to find an example for the ampersand issue.

Regarding issue 3, enable the two options

visible whitespace
Edit --> Others --> Visible Whitspace
Highlight All Selected Text
Tools --> Options --> Text Editor --> Highlight All Selected Text

Open the file main.c and select a space character, for example the one after the keyword ‘for‘. You should see the behaviour from my screenshot.

I have one more for you:

The detection of invalid code is not working correctly. Check the file fsl_device_register.h in my demo project. I would expect, that the line 24 would be shown normal not greyed out.

Is it possible to highlight types from stdint.h?

Hope this helps

Regards

SEGGER - Nino · Jan 26th 2021, 10:39am

Hello,

Thank you for providing the example project.

Masmiseim wrote:

Open the File fsl_flexcan.h and scroll to line 675 to find an example for the ampersand issue.

Yes its reproducible and will be improved.

Masmiseim wrote:

Open the file main.c and select a space character, for example the one after the keyword ‘for‘. You should see the behaviour from my screenshot.

Again reproducible. Will be improved.

Masmiseim wrote:

The detection of invalid code is not working correctly. Check the file fsl_device_register.h in my demo project. I would expect, that the line 24 would be shown normal not greyed out.

Looks incorrect. I added it to our bugtracker and we will investigate further.

Masmiseim wrote:

Is it possible to highlight types from stdint.h?

Currently not, but it is already on our wishlist.

Best regards,
Nino

Masmiseim · Jan 27th 2021, 9:35am

Hello Nino,

thanks for the feedback.

Bye the way, Comments in XML-Files are not colored properly. I would expect that the angle bracket which enframe comments are also colored like the rest of the comment.

Best regards

SEGGER - Nino · Jan 27th 2021, 10:29am

Hello,

Masmiseim wrote:

Bye the way, Comments in XML-Files are not colored properly. I would expect that the angle bracket which enframe comments are also colored like the rest of the comment.

We will add this to the improvements list.

Best regards,
Nino

Masmiseim · Feb 6th 2021, 11:06am

Hello Nino,

I found one more. Row strings are also not highlighted correctly:

Best Regards

SEGGER - Nino · Feb 8th 2021, 10:57am

Hello,

Thank you for the reproducer.
We will investigate this and fix it accordingly.

Best regards,
Nino

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