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Bug 337632

Summary:	Unable to change syntax highlighting colours of certain arithmetic characters in Photran
Product:	[Tools] PTP	Reporter:	Jannes <jannes.venter>
Component:	Photran.Editor & Outline View	Assignee:	Jeffrey Overbey <com-eclipse-dot-org>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2	CC:	com-eclipse-dot-org
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	6.0.7
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
URL:	http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/photran/msg01585.html
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Description Jannes

2011-02-19 05:17:53 EST

In Photran 6.0.5.201011100956:

Changing syntax highlighting for Fortran code is not possible for certain types of characters. These seem to include * + - , etc. 

To reproduce:
Change highlighting via |Windows > Fortran > Editor| and select all colours as non-black. Thereafter, a command such as
  print *, "Hello" 
correctly highlights the keyword and string, but the *, characters remain black. 

The result:
As above, for a range of characters, which makes it impossible to read on a dark background. These characters remain black.

The expected behaviour: 
Be such that these are also addressable via the highlighting options or via the necessary attribute and .prefs file combination for the given workspace.

There is a relevant discussion on the Photran mailing list:
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/photran/msg01585.html

Comment 1 Jeffrey Overbey

2011-03-15 00:23:03 EDT

This is fixed in ptp_4_0 (Photran 6.0.7) and HEAD (Photran 7.0).  There is a new "numbers and punctuation" preference in the Fortran Editor preference page.