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GDScriptSyntaxHighlighter
=========================

**Inherits:** :ref:`EditorSyntaxHighlighter<class_EditorSyntaxHighlighter>` **<** :ref:`SyntaxHighlighter<class_SyntaxHighlighter>` **<** :ref:`Resource<class_Resource>` **<** :ref:`RefCounted<class_RefCounted>` **<** :ref:`Object<class_Object>`

A GDScript syntax highlighter that can be used with :ref:`TextEdit<class_TextEdit>` and :ref:`CodeEdit<class_CodeEdit>` nodes.

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Description
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**Note:** This class can only be used for editor plugins because it relies on editor settings.


.. tabs::

 .. code-tab:: gdscript

    var code_preview = TextEdit.new()
    var highlighter = GDScriptSyntaxHighlighter.new()
    code_preview.syntax_highlighter = highlighter

 .. code-tab:: csharp

    var codePreview = new TextEdit();
    var highlighter = new GDScriptSyntaxHighlighter();
    codePreview.SyntaxHighlighter = highlighter;



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