Re: color coding of syntax

[Ben Pfaff]

That's the right place and it looks like the right contents. My guess
that it was misplaced seems wrong.

Assuming these two machines both have the same version of PSPP, I
don't know what else to guess.

On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 8:24 AM ft gmail <public.ftr@gmail.com>
<blp-forward@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Once you gave me the name of the file with the color codes as pspp.lang I 
> found it in C:\Program Files\PSPP\share\pspp .
>
> Is this the correct place ?
>
> And this is the content. Is there anything wrong in it ?
>
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!--
>    PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
>    Copyright (C) 2006, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
>    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
>    (at your option) any later version.
>
>    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>    GNU General Public License for more details.
>
>    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> -->
>
>
> <language id="pspp" _name="PSPP" version="2.0" _section="Sources">
>
>   <styles>
>     <style id="string" _name="String" map-to="def:string"/>
>     <style id="escaped-character" _name="Escaped Character" 
> map-to="def:special-char"/>
>     <style id="data-block" _name="Data Block" map-to="def:preprocessor"/>
>     <style id="included-file" _name="Included File" map-to="def:string"/>
>     <style id="char" _name="Character" map-to="def:character"/>
>     <style id="keyword" _name="Keyword" map-to="def:keyword"/>
>     <style id="type" _name="Data Type" map-to="def:type"/>
>     <style id="comment" _name="Comment" map-to="def:comment"/>
>   </styles>
>
>   <default-regex-options case-sensitive="false" />
>
>   <definitions>
>
>     <context id="pspp">
>
>       <include>
>
>         <context id="comment-star" style-ref="comment">
>           <start>^[\t ]*\*</start>
>           <end>^[\t ]*$|^(?=[^\t ])</end>
>         </context>
>
>         <context id="comment-keyword" style-ref="comment">
>           <start>^[\t ]*COMMENT</start>
>           <end>\.[\t ]*$|^[\t ]*$|^(?=[^\t ])</end>
>         </context>
>
>         <context id="data-block" style-ref="data-block">
>           <start>(?&lt;=(^BEGIN DATA$))</start>
>           <end>(?=(^END DATA\.?))</end>
>     </context>
>
>         <context id="string-double" end-at-line-end="true"
>                  style-ref="string">
>           <start>"</start>
>           <end>"</end>
>         </context>
>
>         <context id="string-single" end-at-line-end="true"
>                  style-ref="string">
>           <start>'</start>
>           <end>'</end>
>         </context>
>
>     <context id="keywords" style-ref="keyword">
>           <keyword>ALL</keyword>
>           <keyword>AND</keyword>
>           <keyword>BY</keyword>
>           <keyword>EQ</keyword>
>           <keyword>GE</keyword>
>           <keyword>GT</keyword>
>           <keyword>LE</keyword>
>           <keyword>LT</keyword>
>           <keyword>NE</keyword>
>           <keyword>NOT</keyword>
>           <keyword>OR</keyword>
>           <keyword>TO</keyword>
>           <keyword>WITH</keyword>
>         </context>
>
>       </include>
>     </context>
>   </definitions>
>
>
> </language>
>
> Le 07/02/2024 à 17:12, Ben Pfaff a écrit :
>
> My best guess is that the pspp.lang file, which specifies how to do
> syntax highlighting, is somehow missing or misplaced on the machine
> where text appears in all black. It's surprising; I don't know why
> that would have happened.
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 3:53 PM ft gmail <public.ftr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After an installation of pspp 2.0 on a second PC running under win 10 I found 
> that color coding of syntax worked whereas on another PC under win 11 I only 
> get a black syntax text. How to get a color-coded syntax  under win 11 ?
>
> TIA
>
> -ftr