My use of terminology may be inaccurate, but it's certainly possible to add syntax highlighting for new languages. One example is markdown, for which there is an implementation at https://github.com/Edditoria/markdown-plus-plus. My thinking was that each version of Perl might have its own file, such as perl5036.xml, treating it as an independent language in the same way as markdown. This would avoid the need to reboot for different languages. But I may have misunderstood something. This is still above my knowledge grade.

Regards,

John Davies

In reply to Re^5: Which IDE's show tooltips for Perl builtins? (Notepad++) by davies
in thread Which IDE's show tooltips for Perl builtins? by LanX

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