syntax highlighting

collocation in English

meaningsofsyntaxandhighlight

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syntax
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsɪn.tæks/us
/ˈsɪn.tæks/
language
the grammatical arrangement of words in ...
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highlight
noun
uk
/ˈhaɪ.laɪt/us
/ˈhaɪ.laɪt/
the best or most exciting, entertaining, or interesting part ...
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(Definition ofsyntaxandhighlightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsyntax highlighting

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It contains features forsyntaxhighlighting, debugging of grammars, etc.
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The integrated development environment includes a drag-and-drop form designer,syntaxhighlighting, and single-button compilation.
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It provided advanced language-independent code completion facilities, and unlike modern editors withsyntaxhighlighting, actually made it impossible to create syntactically incorrect programs.
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These may include insert positions for automatic header file inclusion, commands to set the file'ssyntaxhighlightingmode, or the file's revision number.
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This can result in some text rendering systems'syntaxhighlightingbeing somewhat inaccurate and, in some cases, can perform slowly.
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Many text editors for software developers include source codesyntaxhighlightingand automatic completion to make programs easier to read and write.
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Lightweight and built for speed, it is designed mainly for source editing, and performssyntaxhighlighting and inline function reference for many different languages.
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It was the first to provide colorsyntaxhighlighting(and to generalizesyntaxhighlightingto multiple file types), first to provide highlighted selections via keyboard.
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Additionally, the editor supportssyntaxhighlightingwhich increases the readability as well as code completion.
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Syntaxhighlightingis a form of secondary notation, since the highlights are not part of the text meaning, but serve to reinforce it.
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However, most source code editors are instead text editors with additional features such assyntaxhighlightingand code folding, rather than structure editors.
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The editor's features includesyntaxhighlightingand autocompletion, but not tabs.
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It was the first to provide colorsyntaxhighlighting(and to generalizesyntaxhighlightingto multiple filetypes).
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Like many similar programs, it offers (customizable)syntaxhighlightingfor the aforementioned weblanguages.
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The editor uses a variety of techniques forsyntaxhighlightingin the source.
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It includes a code editor with features such assyntaxhighlighting, brace matching, and automatic indentation capable of compiling and uploading programs to the board with a single click.
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Kod supportssyntaxhighlightingfor more than 65 programming languages.
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It is targeted towards source-code editing, and featuressyntaxhighlightingfor a large number of programming languages.
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Providessyntaxhighlightingin code views and diffs.
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The program is generally customizable through an extensive configuration file, and it supports colorsyntaxhighlightingfor numerous popular file formats, a feature that is also configurable.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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