Syntax highlighting broken for perl

[Michael Muratet]

Greetings

Thanks to Jorge and Andrew for the help.

I added the style to the preferences and it works now.

I installed nedit from Fink, which is a package provider for OS X.

It also got installed as part of a larger package, BioX, which may  
have overwritten the preferences file.

Regards,

Mike

On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:16 AM, Andrew Hood wrote:

> Michael Muratet wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> I am using the Mac OS X version of nedit v5.4 with Motif 2.1. When I
>> try to edit perl code I get the error message:
>>
>> Style "Text Escape" named in pattern "dq here doc esc chars" does not
>> match any existing style
>>
>> I've looked through all the menus under Default Settings and I don't
>> see any reference to 'Text Escape' to even change. The problem occurs
>> in OS X 10.4 as well as 10.5.
>>
>> I don't see this behavior documented anywhere. Does anybody have any
>> suggestions of things to try?
>
> How did you get to the version of NEdit you are using?
>
> Suppose you started with, say version 5.3, then installed a beta of  
> 5.4
> and then the 5.4 release.
>
> The preferences file would have been upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 by the
> beta. Then when you installed the release, it would see the  
> preferences
> were already at 5.4 and leave them alone. This behaviour has bitten
> other people before.
>
> Some styles have been added between versions, including between betas.
> This could be one of those.
>
> One fix is to use the "Preference"->"Default Settings"->"Syntax
> Highlighting"->"Text Drawing Styles" and use "New" to add:
>
> Name: Text Escape
> Foreground Color: gray30
> Font: Bold
>
> and then save the preferences.
>
> Another method would be back up and then edit ~/.nedit/nedit.rc (or it
> could be ~/.neditrc) and change the line:
>
> nedit.fileVersion: 5.4
>
> to:
>
> nedit.fileVersion: 5.3
>
> and then start nedit. Autoupgrade would add any styles which were  
> added
> after 5.3 and ask if you wanted to save the upgraded version.
>
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