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I went under window->preferences->erlang (in the tree)->editor->syntax coloring to try changing the syntax coloring, similarly to Java but there is no option for it even though erlide 0.20.2 says it supports it on their site (under editor support). I'm using Eclipse Juno and erlide 0.20.3. Any suggestions?

pandoragami
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I'm not sure what you mean by "there is no option" -- we had this feature for a very long time. What do you see on that preference page?

The preview doesn't get updated and I see that if you have files open in the editor, they need to be closed and reopened to see the changes. I created a ticket for that, it's indeed confusing.

Vlad Dumitrescu
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  • Under the syntax coloring page found under the tree erlang->editor->syntax coloring I have box named element with different coloring options for text attributes such as atom, variable, etc.. specific things but nothing about syntax highlighting. I also have four checkboxes in a column for bold, italic, strikeout, underline and a preview window with some sample module. I also checked the tree general->editor and general->appearances and looked for anything that says syntax highlighting and found nothing. – pandoragami Mar 14 '13 at 12:44
  • What do you understand by "syntax highlighting"? It is exactly the process that assigns different styles to different syntactic elements. That page lets you choose the styles. – Vlad Dumitrescu Apr 10 '13 at 19:42
  • No thats not syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting makes all the words with the same spelling on a source code get "colored" a different color than normal when the word is selected. Thats syntax highlighting. What you are talking about has nothing to do with the question I asked but I marked it correct anyways because you were right about restarting eclipse to make the changes for text coloring go in effect. – pandoragami Apr 11 '13 at 09:40
  • Oh, okay, I see. The Eclipse name for this functionality is "mark occurences" and there is a button for it on the toolbar (a yellow pen thingy) with keyboard shortcut Shift-Alt-O. You might need to disable and reenable it to make it work, we have a ticket for fixing that. – Vlad Dumitrescu Apr 11 '13 at 10:27
  • By the way, with the latest versions the colors get updated right away, no need to restart! – Vlad Dumitrescu Apr 11 '13 at 10:34