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LiquidEyes
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Posted - Jan 20 2007 :  10:03:33 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I use Visual Assist X with Visual C++ .NET 2003 (Standard). I'd love it if makefiles were syntax-coloured like my C++ code!

Is this something VAX can, or could ever do? And if it's outside the scope of what VAX is meant for, does anybody happen to know any text editors that are good for makefiles?

I note that HTML files are coloured, which is great, but I have no idea whether VAX is doing this or whether it's Visual Studio itself.

(Even something which simply made makefile comments green would be nice!)

feline
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Posted - Jan 22 2007 :  06:45:01 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It is unlikely that VA is going to support makefiles, but not impossible. For now I would simply edit them in a different program, personally I would use VIM, but this has a very steep learning curve unless you already know about VI

http://www.vim.org/

You could try these programs:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad2/
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/about.php
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

they all offer syntax highlighting and I would expect at least one of them to understand makefiles.
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