[fpc-pascal] Linux Port help

[James Richters]

I checked and syntax highlight was already checked.. I did figure it out
though.. all my pascal files were named with a .PAS extension and I keep
forgetting that linux is extremely case sensitive with everything.. I saved
one with a .pas extention,  closed it then opened it and now that one file
has the highlight, the others do not.. easy enough to fix that though.

Thank you for the help and suggestions to tweak the colors!   I would have
never figured that out!  Nice I can customize it too.   I can't figure out
how to do that with windows.   I would like to get a black background
instead of blue.  

Thanks also for the suggestion of MSEIde  I will check it out!


-----Original Message-----
From: fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org
[mailto:fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme
Geldenhuys
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 7:41 PM
To: fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Linux Port help

On 2016-07-22 23:33, James Richters wrote:
> Here are screenshots:
> https://github.com/Zaaphod/FPC-Parallel-Port/issues/1

I just checked. My FreeBSD version looks like the Windows screenshot.

Also under Linux, load the IDE, then go to Options -> Environment -> Editor.
Then under "Editor options" make sure "Syntax highlighting" is checked. If I
uncheck that and open a new *.pas file, then mine is all blue and yellow
text.

Something else to tweak. If you prefer the darker blue (Windows
screenshot) instead of the lighter blue (Linux screenshot). Those colors are
affected by your terminal program's console theme. eg: I use Mate Terminal
here. Go to Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Colours. Change the Palette
scheme to "Linux console" or "Rxvt". Those are my preferences.
Some Linux systems default that to "Tango" which are much lighter colours.


> I like the text ide because I understand it,  it's pretty much like 
> the Turbo Pascal ide.

I fully understand. Sometimes I use the Text IDE too, to get rid of all
clutter and distractions seen so often in other IDE's or text editors.
But I forgot all the keyboard shortcuts, then I get frustrated with it, and
switch back to Lazarus or MSEide. MSEide is also a very nice, flexible and
super fast IDE. They can all handle console programs without problems.

  MSEide
     https://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/

You can download the IDE zip archive, unpack and run the binary. No need for
any installations.

Regards,
  Graeme

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