Development Environment

Syntax Highlighting

Some entries appear in different colors to help you better find elements, such as matching if/else statements:

• Type a string and it is colored purple. When you close the string, it becomes maroon.
• Type a keyword, such as the flow control function for, or a continuation (ellipsis ...), and it is colored blue. Lines you enter between the opening and closing flow control functions are indented.
• Double-click an opening or closing token, a parenthesis ( ), bracket [ ], or brace { }. This selects the characters between the token and its mate.
• Type a closing token and the matching opening token is highlighted briefly.
• Type a comment symbol, %, and the line appears in green.
• Type a system command, such as the ! (shell escape), and the line appears in gold.
• Errors appear in red.
  
  

To change the colors used for syntax highlighting, see Font & Colors Preferences for the Command Window.

Entering Long Functions

Font Used in the Command Window