The HILITE dialog

The HILITE dialog is shown in Figure 1. You can display this panel by entering the HILITE command with no operands from an edit panel, or by selecting Hilite from the Edit pull-down.

Figure 1. HILITE Initial Screen (ISREP1)

 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │   File  Languages  Colors  Help                                             │
 │ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────  │
 │                            Edit Color Settings                              │
 │                                                                             │
 │                                                                             │
 │                                                                More:     +  │
 │ Language: 1    1. Automatic      Coloring: 3  1. Do not color program       │
 │                2. Assembler                   2. Color program              │
 │                3. BookMaster                  3. Both IF and DO logic       │
 │                4. C                           4. DO logic only              │
 │                5. COBOL                       5. IF logic only              │
 │                6. HTML                                                      │
 │                7. IDL            Enter "/" to select option                 │
 │                8. ISPF DTL          Parentheses matching                    │
 │                9. ISPF Panel     /  Highlight FIND strings                  │
 │               10. ISPF Skeleton  /  Highlight cursor phrase                 │
 │               11. JCL                                                       │
 │               12. Pascal         Note: Information from this panel is       │
 │               13. PL/I           saved in the edit profile.                 │
 │ Command ===>                                                                │
 │  F1=Help        F2=Split       F3=Exit        F7=Backward    F8=Forward     │
 │  F9=Swap       F10=Actions    F12=Cancel                                    │
 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

This dialog enables you to:

Specify a language to be used for coloring, or enable automatic language detection.
Assign colors for different language elements on a language-by-language basis or for all languages at once.
Enable or disable logic or parenthesis matching.
Turn FIND coloring on or off and assign the color for FIND highlighting.
Turn cursor coloring on or off and assign the color for cursor phrase highlighting.
Specify special symbols to be highlighted on a language-by-language basis.
View keyword lists for each language.
Note: Keyword lists and default highlighted symbols for each language are supplied with ISPF. IBM® does not supply facilities for adding additional languages.
However, it is possible to add or remove keywords. This facility involves assembling and link-editing an installation-modified keyword or symbol list. The keyword and symbol lists, and directions for changing them, are in member ISRPXASM in the IBM-supplied ISPF sample library.