Script Editor - Semantic Highlighting and Temporary Tabs are now in Beta!

Ahh, a sublime text-like theme… Thank you, Roblox!

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The fix for this should be deployed soon!

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What are some things that would help your workflow?

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You can do that by going to File > Studio Settings > Script Editor > Font and selecting “Regular” font which removes all the bold on keywords

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Now, when you click a script instance in the explorer tab once, it opens (you usually had to click it twice for it to open), and when you want to delete it, it’s often annoying.

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One dark theme is a VS code like theme

Btw this is a awesome!

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I’m a little confused by this request. You can already change the editor background color?

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Thank you! I love how Roblox is implementing new features. This is for sure one I will use. The colorblind would be nice too, because some people can’t afford the correction glasses.

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Some stuff turned black for me for some reason, is there a fix for this or is there a way to know exactly what the hex colors are for the colors that turned black?

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Woah, that’s weird. I want to test this now. If this is a beta feature, I could see that.

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Resetting your settings should fix that.

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It worked thank you so much, it was getting quite annoying.

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Great updates, makes it a lot easier to read

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Where do you get the dark themes?

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Try visiting Studio Settings > Theme > Dark

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Is there a studio setting to disable the temporary tabs feature? I can’t seem to find one. I really dislike the feature as it’s very intrusive and annoying.

Yes that would be a start. However I really don’t see a need for this feature to begin with. I don’t even have a 1080p display and I never find myself overwhelmed with the number of scripts I have open.

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Are there any plans to highlight magic characters and escape sequences?

An example I just found in my code is
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versus
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This is a simple example, but I think it would make complex string matching easier to understand at a glance.

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I second this. Along with string escapes like \n and \u{1337}.

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I like the new syntax highlighting, but I find Temporary Tab annoying because everytime you select a script, the temporary tab opens and I have to close it to continue on what I’m doing. Can you make the temporary tab disabled by default?
Apologize for my bad english.

I guess I’m in the minority but the temporary tabs are more comfortable for me since other editors I’ve used in the past share this same/similar behavior. Please leave it in as a setting if removing it is being considered.

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