Script editor does not highlight with as a keyword (8.3.3)

jjones3 · October 2, 2026, 3:21pm

Not sure if this belongs here or somewhere else but I noticed in 8.3.3 that the script editor doesn't highlight with as a keyword. Something like this runs fine, but with just shows up as plain text while as on the same line gets highlighted. It's just cosmetic so I wasn't sure it was worth a bug report.

paul-griffith · October 2, 2026, 3:41pm

Nope, totally valid bug to report.
Technically it's an "upstream" issue with a third party dependency:

github.com/bobbylight/RSyntaxTextArea

RSyntaxTextArea/src/main/java/org/fife/ui/rsyntaxtextarea/modes/PythonTokenMaker.flex

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          /* Keywords */
          "and" |
          "as" |
          "assert" |
          "break" |
          "class" |
          "continue" |
          "def" |
          "del" |
          "elif" |
          "else" |
          "except" |
          "exec" |
          "finally" |
          "for" |
          "from" |
          "global" |
          "if" |
          "import" |
          "in" |

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But that doesn't mean we can't/shouldn't fix it, either by working around it or contributing to upstream.

EDIT:
Consider the nerd snipe successful:

github.com/bobbylight/RSyntaxTextArea

PythonTokenMaker: Add missing 'with' keyword (#741)

master ← paul-griffith:python-with-keyword

opened 04:00PM - 02 Oct 26 UTC

paul-griffith

+307 -301

Adds the `with` keyword, part of Python since 2.6. This makes syntax highlightin…g compatible with Python syntax up to 2.7, which is most relevant to me as an end user of Jython - which I think is probably more common among RSTA's user base. `with` is the only missing Python 2 keyword, but Python *3* adds quite a few, plus some "soft" keywords that rely on surrounding context. True Python 3 support would also require changing builtins and a bunch of other stuff - I don't have any personal need for it and I couldn't see any issues asking for it, so I just did the easy thing I needed :)