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OK, for the one or two other people who develop Hugo games in Linux, I've got a syntax highlight definition file. It's for gedit. Just copy the file to the gtksourceview-2.0 directory. (Usually located at /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs).

(Fixed multi-line comments)

http://gerynarsabode.org/index.php?opti ... id=3&cid=6

We're filling in the gaps in this under-represented authoring system. It's good to know that Linux and Windows users now have a couple choices of text editors to use for work on Hugo games. Even if the editors stubbornly refuse to recognize our block comments. ;-)

I blame the designer of the language. I mean honestly, who uses backslashes in code besides to designate a special character.

:)

Gerynar wrote:I blame the designer of the language. I mean honestly, who uses backslashes in code besides to designate a special character.

Maybe that is the problem. The backslash is also defined as the escape character, and the text editors can't manage to interpret both functions.

Not so sure, because this let's gedit also highlight special characters in strings (\n, \B, etc...) I'm thinking (and I could totally be wrong) that at least as far as gedit is concerned, it sees the !, looks through the definitions and says "ah, line comment"

Yeah, I agree, the game language steals so much from C that he should have just stolen /* and */ as block comments.

Yeah, his choice of block comment code is a little strange. Since much of Hugo's design is, um, inspired by Inform 6, he probably got the exclamation-mark-as-comment from there and made up his own multi-line version.

Also, TADS has kind of always been known as the "IF system for C programmers" (which DOES use C-style comment blocks) so he might have been trying to keep away from that.

Anyhow, you can find a list of editors that handle Hugo's block comments correctly here: http://hugo.gerynarsabode.org/index.php ... ed_Editors

(I'm sure there are more out there)