POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : code editor color coding lost : Re: code editor color coding lost Server Time
30 Jul 2024 06:27:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: code editor color coding lost  
From: David H  Burns
Date: 12 Aug 2009 21:05:19
Message: <4a8366cf$1@news.povray.org>
Thanks. It wasn't a serious problem. But it's good to know what's happening.
Apparently something else is going on in Optima's case.

David


clipka wrote:

> 
> Heh! That rings a bell - I guess I know what's broken (at least in your 
> case).
> 
> In the Recent Files list, POV-Ray not only stores the file names, but 
> also some additional information: Last cursor position, stuff like that. 
> And the syntax highlighting language.
> 
> Normally, you should be able to correct this by opening the file, 
> selecting "Options / Editor Window / Editor Preferences", and in the 
> "Language/Tabs" pane change "Language" from "<none>" back to "POV-Ray".
> 
> Alternatively, you can...
> 
> (A) edit the registry manually (ideally closing POV-Ray first of 
> course); you find the lists at:
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\POV-Ray\v3.7\POV-Edit\Open
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\POV-Ray\v3.7\POV-Edit\Recent
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\POV-Ray\v3.7\POV-Edit\Older
> 
> The third-to-last field of each entry encodes the syntax highlighting 
> language; change this from "0" (no highlighting) to "POV-Ray" for the 
> offending file.
> 
> Or (B) open and close 40 different files, which should flush the 
> offending entry out of the lists.


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