Fancy Colors - NWScript support in text editors

What Fancy Colors Is

Fancy Colors is a set of keyword files, templates and configuration instructions for popular text editors, aiming to bring NWScript support in text editors closer to what you can get in the official toolset.

The exact feature set will vary depending on the text editor, but major ones are:
- Syntax highlighting - Code with NWScript keywords colored the same way as in the toolset.
- Autocomplete - Get suggestions for functions and constants while typing.
- Help - Open the Lexicon or another help file directly from the text editor.
- Code browser - Get an overview of the structure of your code and easily jump to functions.
- Templates - Use predefined file templates.

Currently supported text editors:
- ConTEXT
- Crimson Editor
- Notepad++
- Programmer's Notepad
- PSPad
- SciTE
- TextPad

What Fancy Colors Is Not

Even if some text editors have plugin architectures, Fancy Colors is not a plugin nor does it include one. Using plugins to enable advanced NWScript support in text editors would be very powerful, but doing so would require one plugin per text editor (different APIs, different languages), and is out of the scope of this project.

Fancy Colors doesn't include a NWScript compiler. If you want to check if your code has errors from within your text editor, please get nssclc. The two projects are kept separated, as nssclc is a full blown compiler and can be used outside text editors.

Version History

1.00 - 14/11/2009 - Initial release.