To reach this options page, select Araxis Merge > Preferences... > Text Comparisons > Syntax Highlighting
Merge provides syntax-based colouring for several commonly-used programing languages and text file formats. The controls on this page enable you to enable or disable syntax highlighting and to customize the colours used for syntactic elements in these languages and file formats.
Use syntax highlighting for recognized file types
Check this box to enable syntax highlighting within relevant compared text files.
Syntactic element list
This control contains a list of the languages that support syntax highlighting and their syntactic elements. Expand a language in the list if you would like to change the colours used for its syntactic elements.
Selected element colour
This control can be used to change the colour for the selected syntactic element.
Reset to Defaults
Use this button to reset all syntax highlighting colours to their defaults.
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