Title: Plugin idea – Syntax coloured theme editor?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin idea – Syntax coloured theme editor?

 *  [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-syntax-coloured-theme-editor/)
 * How hard would it be to build a syntax coloured theme editor plugin for WordPress?
   Would it be a useful thing to have?
 * Personally I get bored when using an external text editor as I have to save in
   that, switch to my FTP program, upload the file, and switch back to Firefox to
   see the result. Working straight into the Theme Editor is much faster, as I just
   switch between that, and another tab containing the page in question.
 * What do you think?

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-syntax-coloured-theme-editor/#post-222449)
 * There are a variety of them: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Syntax_Highlighting](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Syntax_Highlighting)
 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-syntax-coloured-theme-editor/#post-222451)
 * Thanks Lorelle, all of these seem to be for posts on a blog though, I meant something
   that would colour-code a text file when viewed inside the Theme Editor of the
   dashboard?
 *  [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/)
 * (@ifelse)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-syntax-coloured-theme-editor/#post-222486)
 * _How hard would it be to build a syntax coloured theme editor plugin for WordPress?_
   
   Extremely hard indeed if you’re looking for a editor and not just a viewer.
 *  [jalenack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jalenack/)
 * (@jalenack)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-syntax-coloured-theme-editor/#post-222490)
 * Well I don’t know about syntax highlighting, but this plugin comes in awfully
   handy:
 * [http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/wordpress-editor-search/](http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/wordpress-editor-search/)
 * Gives you a search code and go to line feature.
 * The thing about syntax highlighting how be that it is edited through a textarea
   and adding inline elements to that might not work…
 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-syntax-coloured-theme-editor/#post-222511)
 * Thanks Jalenack looks useful!

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