Re: HTML syntax highlighting

[Duke <dukeofperl@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, John E. Davis wrote:

>
> It also appears that you may have installed jed from source.  If so, I
> strongly recommend that you upgrade to 0.99.19 and slang-2.1.4.  You can
> get the most recent 0.99-19 snapshot from
>
>   <http://www.jedsoft.org/snapshots/>

I have DLed the files, but in the interim I believe that I solved the
mystery.

[21:46:58][dnormandin@tigger:~/jed]$ cat /opt/local/share/jed/lib/colors/black4.sl
% Contributed by Mark Olesen
$1 = "black";
set_color("normal",	"white",	$1);
set_color("status",	"yellow",	"blue");
set_color("region",	"yellow",	"blue");
set_color("menu_char",				"yellow",	"blue");
set_color("keyword0",					"yellow",	$1);
set_color("keyword1",					"green",	$1);
set_color("mouse",						"green",	$1);
set_color("menu",							"lightgray",	"blue");
set_color("menu_char",				"yellow",			"blue");
set_color("menu_popup",				"lightgray", "blue");
set_color("menu_shadow","blue", $1);
set_color("menu_selection_char", "yellow",	"magenta");
set_color("menu_selection", "black", "cyan");
set_color("cursor",					$1, "yellow");
set_color("cursorovr",  $1, "red");
set_color("operator",		"brightcyan", $1);
set_color("delimiter",	"brightcyan", $1);
set_color("message",		"brightcyan", $1);
set_color("comment",		"brightcyan", "gray");
set_color("string",			"lightgray", $1);
set_color("...",				"brightmagenta",$1);
set_color("dollar",			"brightmagenta",$1);
set_color("preprocess", "brightmagenta",$1);
set_color("error",			"brightred",				$1);
set_color("number",			"brightred",				$1);

%% The following have been automatically generated:
set_color("linenum", "yellow", "blue");
set_color("trailing_whitespace", "brightcyan", "gray");
set_color("tab", "brightcyan", "gray");
set_color("url", "lightgray", $1);
set_color("italic", "white", $1);
set_color("underline", "green", $1);
set_color("bold", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword2", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword3", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword4", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword5", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword6", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword7", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword8", "white", $1);
set_color("keyword9", "white", $1);
[21:47:12][dnormandin@tigger:~/jed]$

What would have automatically generated those colors? No wonder I had
no highlighting! When I switched to "black3" on a hunch -- voila!!
Syntax highlighting at last.
-- 
Duke Normandin
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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