Coloring Scheme Editor - Blocks

A block is a piece of edited code with defined properties (e.g. code in a particular scripting language, HTML tag content, etc.). Each block has separate coloring settings. However, it is possible to use the same coloring styles together in different blocks.

Block separators

Block separators mark the beginning and end of a given block in the code. Examples of separators for the HTML DIV tag are '<DIV' (left) and '>' (right).

Edit separators.
When you click on the 'Edit separators' icon, a window will open where you can specify the right and left separators.

• Separators are part of the block
  Check this option if you want the separators to be colored according to the settings of the block in question. Otherwise, the default settings of the schema in question, or of the parent block (if the block in question is nested within another), apply.

Block options

Case sensitive
Check this option if you want the lower/upper case letters used in Keywords to be recognized.

Use metasymbols
Check this option if you want to define a character that will have a special meaning while checking the option:

• ...as an escape character (escape char) - overrides the end-of-string character, which is used in various programming languages to insert this character as part of a string (e.g. the \ character in PHP).

• ...to wrap long lines - forces a line break in the editor when a metasymbol is encountered.

Style and highlighting scheme

Text style - allows you to select the coloring style to be used to color the plain text in the block. Plain text is anything not defined as a comment, string, number, identifier or keyword. You can also create a new style that will automatically be assigned to plain text.

Color the symbols
Check this option if you want to select or create a coloring style for the symbols predefined in the program (characters ().={}[] etc.).