Editors Preferences

Syntax coloring for the source pages that are embedded in PDE editors can be customized on the Open the editors preference page Window > Preferences... > Plug-in Development > Editors preference page. A Preview pane is available to show the changes made before they are applied. Changes take effect on editors only after you press Apply or OK.

XML Highlighting

The XML source pages of the plug-in development and user assistance editors use the shared syntax colors of the workbench for tags, attribute names, strings, comments and processing instructions. They are customized in the Syntax coloring category of the Open the Colors and Fonts preference page Window > Preferences... > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts preference page, which also holds the PDE specific Externalized string color for %key values.

MANIFEST.MF Highlighting Preference

The Manifest Highlighting tab allows you to specify the color and font for the assignment operators, attributes, directives, headers, reserved OSGi headers and attribute values.

To customize the font and color for each element, select the element in the left viewer and make changes using the buttons located on the right. The Preview pane automatically updates to reflect the changes you make.

The MANIFEST.MF source page of the plug-in editor is controlled by this preference.

MANIFEST.MF Syntax Highlighting

PDE Preferences