Re: Postscript edit identifier highlighting.
Re: Postscript edit identifier highlighting.
- Subject: Re: Postscript edit identifier highlighting.
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:15:35 -0500
On 23 Aug 2012, at 3:33 PM, Julie Porter <email@hidden> wrote:
> My goal here is to use postscript to drive a 3D FDM printer.
But I understand your immediate goal is to get a syntax-highlighting source editor for Postscript?
Xcode can't be made to do it adequately. As you've found, it happens to be a text editor that happens to balance delimiters.
I'd recommend BBEdit. (TextWrangler may be good enough. It's free, so maybe you can use it to see if you'd like BBEdit.) There's a language module that does syntax coloring at <http://ancientgroove.co.uk/freebies/PostScript.plist>. I don't know what quality it is, nor whether the codeless language module syntax is rich enough to do what you want. You could try writing your own; this was difficult until some genius clarified the process. <http://www.barebones.com/support/develop/clm.html>
It also has an MPW-like command document so you can run your interpreters. (BBEdit-only, I think.)
It's been a while since I've used TextMate, which has a much richer syntax language. I'm sure there is at least one Postscript module. I'll suppress the urge to compare. (That's not a sneer — I'm rusty enough that I can't offer a judgment for your case, and I definitely do not want to start a religious war.)
— F
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Fritz Anderson -- Xcode 4 Unleashed -- <http://x4u.manoverboard.org/>
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