Syntax highlighting doesn't work from the start.

[zyedidia]

Syntax highlighting doesn't work from the start.

[zyedidia]

What are the file formats of the files you've tried? They need to be among the list of supported formats, which you can find here.

[zyedidia]

Syntax highlighting is definitely on and working in that image. The closing parenthesis not being highlighted is a problem with the syntax highlighting file for javascript, and not micro's highlighting engine. You can view the file here.

[zyedidia]

It should work directly after install. How did you install it? Did running executing (press Ctrl-e) set syntax on successfully turn it on?

[amichail]

I installed with homebrew. It doesn't seem to recognize the file formats of files I've tried. Set syntax on doesn't help.

[amichail]

I've tried python and swift.

[zyedidia]

Hmm. Syntax highlighting should work for those two filetypes (it does for me). I wonder if it might be an issue with colors in your terminal. Do other programs (like vim) successfully use colors?

What OS and terminal are you using?

[amichail]

I think it's a problem with detecting the file type because it says "Unknown".

vim syntax highlighting works with both languages I tried.

[zyedidia]

Ok, so it's definitely a problem with micro's filetype detection. These files end in .py and .swift right? Do they have other . characters in the name? If possible, could you tell me the names of the files?

[dfreire]

I have the same problem. .js, .php, .go, etc. no syntax highlighting, even after Ctrl-e set syntax on.

[colinrioux]

Here's an example of .js on my machine. Syntax seems to be off as well even after running Ctrl-e set syntax on. In fact, it seems like it's the default syntax coloring. You can also see faintly the closing parenthesis is gray and not the matching color.

[zyedidia]

Any update on this? A lot has changed since this issue was reported, so it may be fixed now.

[dfreire]

I noticed the problem in April after installing micro via homebrew.

Today, following your comment, I checked the homebrew version was not updated, so I removed it and installed the osx nightly binary. With this binary the syntax highlighting is working properly.

Micro version: d6307b2

[zyedidia]

Ok thanks for the response. I think the Homebrew formula should be directly linked to the osx nightly binary. The problem is that the binary always has the same name even if the version is different (micro-osx.tar.gz) so Homebrew thinks it's the same binary and will sometimes used a cached version. There's probably a way to fix this, but I don't know how to use Homebrew well enough to do so.

In any case, it seems like this issue is resolved. Just reopen it if you have the problem again.

[frak0d]

I think they should add option to set Language manually if micro is unable to detect. something like set lang cpp

[zyedidia]

You can set the filetype option manually to do this.