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