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Questions about highlighting for Mathematica input in the Mathematica front-end, and Wolfram Workbench.

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SyntaxInformation cannot reproduce syntax coloring of Block

Is there any way to have the same syntax coloring with SyntaxInformation that Block has? SyntaxInformation[func] = {"ArgumentsPattern" -> {{__}, _}, "LocalVariables" -> {"Solve", {1, Infinity}}}; func[vars : {__}, body_] :=…
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Syntax information "ArgumentsPattern" for function of function?

Is is possible to write SyntaxInformation of "ArgumentsPattern" for functions of the form: f[a,b][x,y,z] That is, I get syntax coloring such that the first set of square braces takes exactly 2 arguments, and the second set takes 3? I tried…
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Nested list of patterns in SyntaxInformation "ArgumentsPattern"

I have a function with the following input structure: f[{{a1, n1}, {a2, n2}...}, {i1, i2,...}] The first argument is a List of Lists, each with exactly two elements, and the second argument is a list of symbols. So I thought the appropriate…
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How to add a custom syntax error check

When Mathematica encounters a syntax error like a./b it generates a red bracket and highlights offending symbols with yellow background. I would like to add some custom checks which work in the same way. For example I would like to highlight double…
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Reset SyntaxInformation completely

As was pointed out here clearing the SyntaxInformation isn't trivial to do. The best I was able to come up with for clearing it was: SyntaxInformation[f] = { "ArgumentsPattern" -> {___}, "LocalVariables" -> {"Table", 0}, …
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$ContextAliases and symbol color

The example below shows that the symbol test`MyFunction is still in blue, which suggests that it is not defined. The color is defined in menu Edit > Preferences> Appearance > SyntaxColoring > Global symbols that have no value…
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Installing pygments to be able to use lexer & highlighter for Mathematica

I'd like to try the lexer and highlighter for Mathematica that's based on Pygments, but I'm lost in a morass of getting Pygments installed. Here's what I have so far. I'm using MacPorts python37 (invoked from command line by "python"). Again with…
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Why the coloring in Block construct?

I want a function that works like in the following example: it gets an expression which contains a variable var and evaluate it setting setting var = value. I used Block to avoid expr being evaluated if variable var holds a value in the notebook.…
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Multiple lines of text are being highlighted every time I click

I've had this weird/annoying problem appear a few times now in Mathematica 10.4 where whenever I click, it highlights everything from the bottom of the cell to my cursor. If I click outside a cell, it highlights all cells from the bottom of the…
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Syntax highlighting of RuleDelayed involving Orderless symbols

I am using version 10.0.2 If I set SetAttributes[ol, Orderless] Then the following expression appears to be highlighted incorrectly after clicking in it (no need to evaluate it) ol[a_, b_] :> {a, b} (*click in this expression*) Of course…
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Is there any other built-in color scheme for highlighting text?

Blue variable name and black key words seem boring to me now. I find that the color scheme of this site is better. Can I apply that in my notebook?
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Demo for Pygments-Mathematica for static webpages?

Context So @rsmenon's pygments-mathematica looks awesome. Admittedly I still use minted for $\LaTeX$ documents... Anyway, I would like to add some Mathematica syntax highlighting for a few static webpages (built without Jekyll, Octopress, or…
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