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User forums => General (but related to Code::Blocks) => Topic started by: drac on March 09, 2008, 02:11:34 am

Title: c++ headers not having syntax highlighting
Post by: drac on March 09, 2008, 02:11:34 am

Hi,

I'm using release 8.02 and if I create a c++ console application and I right click on the
#include <iostream> and select "Open #include file: 'iostream'" all I see is black text.

It seams that the extensionless c++ header files are not taken into consideration as
c++ files.

Here is a list of c++ header files: (taken from Dinkumware (http://www.dinkumware.com/manuals/default.aspx) documentation)

Code

<algorithm> 
<array> 
<bitset> 
<cassert> 
<ccomplex> 
<cctype> 
<cerrno> 
<cfenv> 
<cfloat> 
<cinttype> 
<ciso646> 
<climits> 
<clocale> 
<cmath> 
<complex> 
<csetjmp> 
<csignal> 
<cstdarg> 
<ccstdbool> 
<cstddef> 
<cstdint> 
<cstdio> 
<cstdlib> 
<cstring> 
<ctgmath> 
<ctime> 
<cwchar> 
<cwctype> 
<deque> 
<exception> 
<fstream> 
<functional> 
<hardware> 
<iomanip> 
<ios> 
<iosfwd> 
<iostream> 
<istream> 
<iterator> 
<limits> 
<list> 
<locale> 
<map> 
<memory> 
<new> 
<numeric> 
<ostream> 
<queue> 
<random> 
<regex> 
<set> 
<slist> 
<sstream> 
<stack> 
<stdexcept> 
<streambuf> 
<string> 
<strstream> 
<tuple> 
<typeinfo> 
<type_traits> 
<utility> 
<valarray> 
<vector> 

Regards,
Cristi.

Title: Re: c++ headers not having syntax highlighting
Post by: Ceniza on March 09, 2008, 11:04:26 am

That's right. It's because those files don't have an extension, so CB treats them as plain text files by default. A trick is to add * to the list of Filemasks in the Syntax Highlighting options for C/C++ (Settings -> Editor).

Title: Re: c++ headers not having syntax highlighting
Post by: drac on March 09, 2008, 02:00:40 pm

Thanks for the workaround.