Syntax: Include underscores in numbers

jeffrey_glenn · Post by **jeffrey_glenn** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:12 pm

I use TextPad for various languages, with syntax, including several I created myself for my work. Any way, I use it often with Ada 95 which allows underscores to be included in numeric literals, e.g. 10_000_000, like where one would put commas to separate groups of digits.

For syntax coloring, TextPad recognizes only up to the first underscore, so that in my example above, the "10" would be in color, but the "_000_000" is in black.

Does anyone know how to specify in either my syntax file or in TextPad's preferences how to include those underscores in my numbers?

Thanks!

Tomas Eklund · Post by **Tomas Eklund** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:50 am

Don't think that is possible with TextPad 4. I guess you need to look for a text editor which uses regular expressions for defining syntax coloring schemes. Personally, I only know of one editor that does, and it's created by JGSoft. But of course, there may be others as well.