syntax color coding

hsfrey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm printing out javascript code from a perl program, so I have long multi-line quote strings containing javascript.

My editor, editplus3, doesn't recognize that the continuation lines are part of the quote, so it tries to syntax color-code them as though they were perl code. I'd rather they were colored as quote strings.

Is there an editor that will syntax color-code perl multi-line quote strings as quote strings?

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Re: syntax color coding by tobyink (Canon) on Apr 02, 2012 at 06:57 UTC
SciTE certainly can cope with multi-line strings (and heredocs). `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re: syntax color coding by johngg (Canon) on Apr 02, 2012 at 09:31 UTC
I use nedit which can also correctly highlight multi-line quoted strings. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply]
Re: syntax color coding by Anonymous Monk on Apr 02, 2012 at 01:05 UTC
Is there an editor that will syntax color-code perl multi-line quote strings as quote strings? It doesn't exist :\| A good editor for Perl sources Padre, the Perl IDE http://kephra.sourceforge.net/ Perl6 syntax highlight editor Vim for Perl developers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors ErgoEmacs improves GNU Emacs for people who did not grew up with emacs. Best perl editor on Ubuntu/Linux Useful syntax highlighting to illustrate variable interpolation? ?node_id=3989;HIT=editor;re=N	[reply]
Re^2: syntax color coding by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 02, 2012 at 07:04 UTC
Padre (well, Scintilla) knows to syntax-color double-quoted here-documents. It looks (somewhat) like this: `$foo = <<PERL; bar is $bar PERL $baz = "blurb";`	[reply]
Re^2: syntax color coding by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 02, 2012 at 14:25 UTC
cperl for Emacs handles multiline quoted strings and HERE docs quite right.	[reply]
Re^3: syntax color coding by Anonymous Monk on Apr 02, 2012 at 19:39 UTC
cperl for Emacs handles multiline quoted strings and HERE docs quite right. That is kinda why I linked to it :) I guess I need to work on my sarcasm face	[reply]
Re: syntax color coding by herveus (Prior) on Apr 02, 2012 at 15:42 UTC
Howdy! Notepad++ got it right. yours, Michael	[reply]


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