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Use

Syntax highlighting is a feature that allows you to display text in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. This feature eases writing in a programming language as both structures and syntax errors are visually distinct.

Features

The new Front-End Editor uses different colors for the different ABAP entities. By default, keywords are blue, identifiers are black, character literals are green, and comments are grey. Syntactically incorrect ABAP constructs are highlighted in red.

Figure 1: Syntax Highlighting

For more information about changing these settings, see Fonts and Colors.