syntax highlighting

English

Noun

syntax highlighting (uncountable)

1. (computing) Highlighting of source code with color, boldfacing, etc. to indicate its syntactic structure.
   • 2015, Ernesto Damiani, ‎Fulvio Frati, ‎Dirk Riehle, Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact

     Some pastebins even include syntax highlighting for common programming languages.

Translations

highlighting of source code

• French: coloration syntaxique (fr) f
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• German: Sytax-Highlighting n, Syntaxhervorhebung f