FarColorer is a syntax highlighting plugin for FAR Manager.

To get the latest Colorer, install the latest FarManager. Nightly builds of FarManager have night build of FarColorer.

FarColorer is included in FAR Manager since about build 3200, so just update FAR Manager to get latest releases.

Check F9 - Options - Plugins configuration - FarColorer

It only works for (F4)Edit, (F3)View is not supported, as there is no API. but you can type in the console clr:name_of_file This launches the built-in viewer colorer.

To build plugin from source, you will need:

• Visual Studio 2015 or higher
• git
• cmake 2.8.9 or higher

Download the source from git repository:

cd src
git clone https://github.com/colorer/FarColorer.git --recursive

or update git repository:

git pull
git submodule update --recursive

From src/FarColorer/scripts call

nmake_build.cmd

The built binaries will be in build/FarColorer/x86 or x64

• Project main page: https://colorer.sourceforge.net/
• Far Manager forum: https://forum.farmanager.com/
• FarColorer discussions (in Russian): https://forum.farmanager.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1573
• FarColorer discussions (in English): https://forum.farmanager.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=4319