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rdfEditor Advanced Settings

As seen in the main page for rdfEditor you have significant control over the display of RDF in the editor:

{{http://www.dotnetrdf.org/images/screenshots/editor_appearance.jpg|rdfEditor - Appearance Settings}}

But sometimes this may not be enough since you may want more detailed control over syntax highlighting. To do this follow this guide:

Step 1 - Edit Configuration File

Locate the Directory where rdfEditor and the rest of the Tools are installed. You should see a file named rdfEditor.exe.config, open it and look for the following section:

    <applicationSettings>
        <VDS.RDF.Utilities.Editor.Properties.Settings>
            <setting name="UseCustomisedXshdFiles" serializeAs="String">
                <value>False</value>
            </setting>
        </VDS.RDF.Utilities.Editor.Properties.Settings>
    </applicationSettings>

Change the value False to be True and save the File

Step 2 - Edit Highlighting Definitions

Under the directory where you found the Configuration file should be a subdirectory called Syntax/ in which you will find a number of files with a .xshd extension. These are the highlighting definitions used by the AvalonEdit component which powers the editor, to learn how to edit them we recommend looking at this CodeProject article.

Warning

If you edit a file such that it is invalid that highlighting will stop working in the editor. You can set the setting back to False to cause the editor to use the in-built default copies of the syntax highlighting definitions.

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