Perl Syntax Highlighting from Brackets?

[tim.butler]

Hi everyone,

It looks like in the ancient past, there was a Dreamweaver extension for Perl. With the new (2017) release's alleged emphasis on coding, I thought I might give Dreamweaver a try again since I have Creative Cloud and I'm looking for a new editor (BBEdit has gotten unreliable with remote connections to my server for some reason, which has made it a pain to use after years of reliable service). In any case, I was wondering is Dreamweaver closely related enough to Brackets with this new release's compatibility with Brackets preprocessors that I could somehow import/convert Brackets' Perl syntax highlighting file into something Dreamweaver can use?

Thanks for your help!

Best,

Tim

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

I haven't worked with Perl in more than a decade so I don't know.

Yes, DW has integrated a scaled down version of Brackets for code editing.  Mode-aware syntax highlighting isn't turned on in DW. I don't know if / when it will be.   Personally, I don't really need it.  I've been coding long enough to know the difference between PHP & JS .

For reasons of my own, I switched code colors to a Brackets theme from Github that does a pretty good job of syntax highlighting with HTML, PHP, CSS, LESS/SASS and JavaScript.  I haven't tried it with Perl, sorry.   For details on how I changed themes, see link below.

Re: Enable code coloring in Dreamweaver CC 2017