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**_blank** · August 7, 2024, 8:04am

Unable to get the syntax highlighting for c++ files when i started after updating the sublime text to Build 4180 I got this error… Please Help

Note: Everything was fine and working before the update!

**jfcherng** · August 7, 2024, 8:34am

Likely you have your own C++ syntax override file.

**deathaxe** · August 7, 2024, 9:04am

The error indicates an overridden Packages/C/C.sublime-syntax or a 3rd-party C syntax being present, which specifies source.c scope, but does not define block-comment-documentation-body context.

The mentioned context is referenced by scope in C++.sublime-syntax at

github.com

sublimehq/Packages/blob/214c07ca12faea74ba8e9e5f96eb7ceb12c06d13/C++/C++.sublime-syntax#L335


      3: punctuation.definition.comment.end.c
  # empty block comments
  - match: /\*\*+/
    scope: comment.block.empty.c punctuation.definition.comment.c
    push: global-block-comment-after
  # documentation block comments
  - match: (?:/\*!|/\*{2,})
    scope: punctuation.definition.comment.begin.c
    push:
      - global-block-comment-after
      - scope:source.c#block-comment-documentation-body
  # normal block comments
  - match: /\*
    scope: punctuation.definition.comment.begin.c
    push:
      - global-block-comment-after
      - scope:source.c#block-comment-body


global-block-comment-after:
  - match: \s*(?=\w)
    set: global-modifier

It is defined in C.sublime-syntax at

github.com

sublimehq/Packages/blob/214c07ca12faea74ba8e9e5f96eb7ceb12c06d13/C++/C.sublime-syntax#L93


    scope: punctuation.definition.comment.begin.c
    push: block-comment-documentation-body
  # normal block comments
  - match: /\*
    scope: punctuation.definition.comment.begin.c
    push: block-comment-body
  # stray block comment end
  - match: \*+/(?!\*)
    scope: invalid.illegal.stray-comment-end.c


block-comment-documentation-body:
  - meta_include_prototype: false
  - meta_scope: comment.block.documentation.c
  - match: \*+/
    scope: punctuation.definition.comment.end.c
    pop: true
  - match: ^\s*(\*)(?!\**/)
    captures:
      1: punctuation.definition.comment.c


block-comment-body:

**_blank** · August 7, 2024, 3:21pm

Thanks for the help got it working back again!

Build 4180: C++ Syntax Highlighting Error