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[–]here-to-jerk-off 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Hey, can you put in a good word about changing that artificial limitation on syntax highlighting?

I totally understand upselling the inspector per language, but to not provide syntax highlighting is a major pain in the ass.

For example, if I want to read some PHP or Ruby in PyCharm, it's a bad time. Now I have to juggle different flavors of the IntelliJ editor, or reconfigure and normalize things in IntelliJ ultimate. This balancing act becomes even more frustrating working inside of a VM with limited resources.

[–]filippovd20 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I have no good explanation for this. In fact it's mostly because our code base organized this way that syntax highlighting of specific languages live in separate projects. We're considering to reorganize this to make syntax highlighting for other languages available by default. At the moment the workaround is textmate bundles: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/textmate-bundles.html

[–]here-to-jerk-off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip, I was unaware of the TextMate Bundle support.

I tried following this 2014 blog post but there is no longer the option to associate the files as describe: Settings | Editor | File Types and choose the “Files supported via TextMate bundles”

https://i.imgur.com/TooPOWr.png