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mantaray
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Posted - Aug 21 2006 : 3:20:53 PM

I would like to be using visual studio to edit certain source files which are not natively supported. Say for example my own in-development script language, or the people which use Lua and other script languages. What I would like is at least the same support for custom highlighting as the editor EditPlus.

What do you think?

feline
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Aug 21 2006 : 6:15:10 PM

if all you want is for certain keywords to be highlighted as keywords then adding them to the "usertype.dat" file is probably the best solution

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxtskDefiningKeywordsInVisualC.asp

if instead you are looking for full blown support for new languages then the answer is going to have to be no, at least for now. we already have a lot of work simply keeping up with several IDE's and all of the quirks of C++, C# and VB.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

galopin
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Posted - Sep 18 2006 : 09:22:24 AM

And a support for hlsl files (gpu shaders language)? their complexity increase very quickly and the advantage of visual assist would be great for this language ( c++ with more built in type and some new call parameter semantics)

are anyone a 3D progammer her ?