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Syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting is a feature of text editors that is used for programming, scripting, or markup languages, such as HTML. The feature displays text, especially source code, in different colours and fonts according to the category of terms. This feature facilitates writing in a structured language such as a programming language or a markup language as…

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Syntax-directed editorsCode completionIntellivisionEntertainment Computer SystemBASIC
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Support in text editors

PostScriptRTFLibrariesPHPLaTeX
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Syntax elements

Text decorationSnippetC++KeywordsComment
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Practical benefits

DelimiterBrace matchingPPIG
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Support in text editors

Syntax elements

History and limitations

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Syntax highlighting

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples52
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

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Syntax highlighting

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related to history · 24
Syntax highlighting → Anita, BASIC, Chodak, ECS, Emily, In, Intellivision's Entertainment Computer System, It, Its, Jan, Klock, Later, LEXX, Live Parsing Editor, Macintosh, MacPascal, October, On, One, Oxford English Dictionary
related to Support in text editors · 11
Syntax highlighting → For, Generic Syntax Highlighter, GeSHi, HTML, LaTeX, PHP, PostScript, RTF, Some, There, This
related to Practical benefits · 8
Syntax highlighting → Additionally, Brace, Consequently, For, PPIG, Syntax, The, This
related to Syntax elements · 4
Syntax highlighting → Called, Most, Programmers, These
is a · 2
Syntax highlighting → feature of text editors that is used for programming, form of secondary notation

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Important terminology

syntax highlighting code text editors language programming also feature editor used parsing html example different markup keywords one colour programs

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Syntax highlightingis afeature of text editors that is used for programming0.90text
Syntax highlightingis aform of secondary notation0.90text
a programming language or a markup language as both structuresinstance ofThis feature facilitates writing in a structured language0.80text
syntax errors are visually distinctinstance ofThis feature facilitates writing in a structured language0.80text
keywordsinstance ofdata gathered from an eye-tracker during the study suggested that syntax highlighting enables programmers to pay less attention to standard syntactic components0.80text
Syntax highlightingrelated to historyThe0.60section
Syntax highlightingrelated to historyOne0.60section
Syntax highlightingrelated to historyWilfred Hansen's0.60section
Syntax highlightingrelated to historyEmily0.60section
Syntax highlightingrelated to historyIt0.60section
Syntax highlightingrelated to historyIn0.60section
Syntax highlightingrelated to historyAnita0.60section

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