On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Michael Gogins <gogins@pipeline.com> wrote:
> >I'm looking at Scite now (windows). Can you point me in a direction of
>  >finding out how to turn on syntax highlighting for csound files?
>
>  google scite csound

just you won't think I didn't try that, I searched on "scite csound
color", which didn't bring up what I needed.

thanks  (see below)


>  >BTW, I've been using TextPad (http://www.textpad.com/) on windows for
>  >many years and thought I'd see how well it works for csound. It does
>  >well. I created a syntax configuration file with all csound keywords
>  >for color coding. I also created a CHM file from the latest 5.08
>  >manual. While this can be easily called within TextPad, TextPad
>  >doesn't have keyword help capability (that is, move cursor to keyword,
>  >hit F1 tocall the keyword definition from the help file.) Does Scite
>  >have this?
>
>  Unfortunately, not at this time. It may be possible to implement it, however, since Scite has Lua scripting.

i was wrong about what I said regarding keyword help lookup. It works,
I just found this out by accident (and not really documented in the
TextPad doc/website.)

If anyone wants to try it, let me know.

brad