Colorize

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Thu May 19 18:20:30 EDT 2005


Hershel Fisch wrote:

>Hi all, I'm wondering why when hit colorize (in one of the script menu's
>every thing turns purple as for comments.
>  
>
You may have hit the same issue as Andre did a while ago - what I found 
then was as follows (I'm sure I BZ'ed it then - but can't find it; I 
will BZ it later once I'm sure it's not creating a duplicate ....)

> But I like colorized scripts, so first thing I did was look at the 
> colorize problem.
> It's not caused by the complexity of the script - it seems to be just 
> a result of your commenting style.  I'll check into this some more and 
> enter a BZ if I can confirm it completely, but I am already 95% sure 
> that colorize can't deal with a block comment that finishes with the line
> **/
>
> You have some block comments like
> /*
> * some text
> **/
>
> Just changing the last line to
> * */  (i.e. adding a space between the two asterisks) prevents the 
> colorize problem (in my small sample cases).
>
> I did a find/replace "**/"  to "* */" on your lib script, and it now 
> colorizes OK. 

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