Posted by John Salerno on 10/11/06 03:47

Toby Inkster wrote:

> I highly recommend SciTE (it's on the list). Why?

> * It's got Syntax highlighting in tonnes of languages, including
> HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, Javascript, SQL and XML

I would love using Scite except for one thing that is very unsatisfying:
you can't define your own syntax highlighting. Actually, I find this to
be a problem with every text editor I've used except UltraEdit (which I
use and love).

I know there is syntax highlighting, but it's very inflexible. There are
a limited number of groups of words that can be highlighted, and you
have to settle for what Scite wants to highlight. With UltraEdit, you
define your own groups (such as "Methods", "Keywords", "Exceptions",
etc.) and customize the highlighting. With Scite, you can highlight main
things like keywords, but you can't define your own groups (so no
exception highlighting), and you also can't highlight methods and
functions wherever they appear, only when they are first defined. Maybe
some people like this behavior, but I like the more flexible behavior of
highlighting exactly what I want.

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