Arduino IDE 2.0 editor text color mismatch on keyword 'byte'

[cmarciales]

The color coding for declared types is mostly working except for 'byte'. See here in my editor:

The editor so far is great! I'm still discovering features and it is a great improvement over IDE 1.8. Thanks for your hard work!

[ptillisch]

Hi @cmarciales. I provided an explanation of why we don't get the same syntax highlighting in Arduino IDE 2.x as we did in 1.x over here:

Code colouring: boolean vs char

Arduino IDE 1.x used a syntax highlighting system where arbitrary keywords could be defined, globally, by the boards platform authors, and by library authors: https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/library-specification/#keywords https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/platform-specification/#keywordstxt You can see the definition of the boolean and byte keywords here: https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/1.8.19/build/shared/lib/keywords.txt#L59-L60 boolean LITERAL1 BooleanVar…

This deficiency is tracked by the Arduino IDE developers here:

Some keywords (type, CONSTANT) are not properly coloured in editor

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