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I must be missing something obvious, but, in spite of a lot of internet searching, I cannot find a key to the colours used for syntax highlighting in Microchip MPLAB source code editor. I am sure that interpreting these will help me discover an obscure error in code I copied from an on-line tutorial.

Can anyone please tell me how to find a key to these colours?

OT, I'm in UK, must I use American spelling, e.g. color for colour?

Harry Weston
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On MPLAB v8 press Edit | Properties and on the Text tab select Choose Colors to view your syntax highlighting settings.

On MPLAB X press Tools | Options, select Fonts & Colors. Browse through your colour setup on the Highlighting tab.

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  • Thank you for that @mizo. I did find this when I was searching for the key to the colours, but in my version, MPLAB X IDE v1.41, running on Linux, it omits at least two. "#include" is in green, and the file referenced is in orange both with a white background. These may come under the "inherited" foreground colour specified, but my attempts to explore this further were just frustrating: the "Help" button leads to instructions on how to change it, not to what the definitions are, – Harry Weston Feb 23 '13 at 12:20