Quick way to set custom syntax highlighting in Eclipse

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Donovan picture Donovan · May 31, 2012 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

I know I'm not the first to need this. I am working on an in house created codebase and I would like to apply highlighting to it within Eclipse. In Notepad++ I can set language for the file I'm looking at. Is there any way to do this for Eclipse?

The code I'm working on would use the same syntax styling as C++.

Answer

Andrew Eisenberg picture Andrew Eisenberg · Jun 1, 2012

Your best bet is to go to Preferences -> General -> Editors -> File associations. Add the file extension of the thing you are trying to open and add the C++ editor as the associated default editor.

If there is no file extension, then things are a little harder. Instead of double-clicking to open the file, right-click -> Open with... -> other -> C++ editor. This will remember your choice for that file only.

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