Mar

9

2007

Improved Coldfusion Coloring in Afae

Category: Afae, Linux, Mac, Windows

Afae’s Coldfusion coloring is much better now thanks to Ron Stewart. Ron did some magic on the Coldfusion mode file, and added a new theme called Fusion II which makes Coldfusion code look very close to CFEclipse, Dreamweaver, et al. Some of the features include:

  • SQL syntax highlighting in cfquery blocks with <cfqueryparam> coloring as well.
  • Auto close on tags, but not on tags like cfset or cfelse
  • CFScript syntax highlighting (well, it looks really close anyway)
  • Javascript and style coloring in javascript and style blocks.

I was impressed with how well he got it to look. The code coloring is as good as CFEclipse in the early days (todays CFEclipse coloring is far, far better than Afae’s). It’s not perfect, and probably never will be because Afae is not an editor specific to Coldfusion, but it’s definitely usable for day to day tasks.

Here is what the new mode looks like colored with Ron’s new theme Fusion II (Note: show whitespace is on, which is not required):

FusionII

As a little joke I added a theme called Love Is Alive. Not sure if anyone will get the joke though. Here is what it looks like:

Love Is Alive

You can download the updated version on the Afae plugin page

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