This is for adding the plumbing necessary to support multiple syntax highlighters in the (plain text) editor, if that support doesn't already exist (I don't see any evidence of it).
-1 It is NOT the scope of writer! there are already a few extensions that provide syntax highlighting, so we don’t need a builtin feature! There are enough Tools which provides proper Syntaxhightlighting… so why reinventing the wheel?
(In reply to Werner Tietz from comment #2) > -1 > > It is NOT the scope of writer! > there are already a few extensions that provide syntax highlighting, so we > don’t need a builtin feature! > > There are enough Tools which provides proper Syntaxhightlighting… so why > reinventing the wheel? Provide an example. I was of the impression, per https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/does-syntax-highlighting-exist-as-a-feature/103940/4, that such extensions' scopes were limited to advanced file formats (like DOCX and ODT, etcetera) and in limited fashions (custom text boxes) rather than for all text, especially plain text.
-1 from my side. I used this extension https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/5814 when I have formatted my latest book about programming
The function should be covered with the macro. You can also use the code editors. On Linux/KDE the text editor is Kate, having a powerful highlighting features. Use "Copy as HTML" and paste the snippet into Writer. Or just copy/paste from Visual Studio.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5) Do you all agree consequently that we should resolve the linked issues as WONTFIX too? 1. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43089#c0 2. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97638#c0 3. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160360#c0 Without a shared codebase for syntax highlighting support between them, they seem like they would become disparate nightmares for any maintainer, and be unnecessarily difficult to implement.
(In reply to `{third: "Beedell", first: "Roke"}`{.JSON5} from comment #6) > Do you all agree consequently... > Bug 43089 - Syntax highlighting for Math I don't see highlighting of a particular bracket as syntax. => WF > Bug 97638 - Beanshell Editor: Add syntax highlighting Sure, Beanshell is a macro language with a strong syntax, http://www.beanshell.org/manual/syntax.html > Bug 160360 - Syntax Highlighting for Markdown I don't fully understand this idea but if you expect a Writer text to be saved as or loaded from md my take here is also WF.