topic syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5? in Intel® Fortran Compiler

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

abhimodak — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:51:33 GMT

I posted this yesterday on a separate thread but may be it was lost there...

I find that syntax coloring etc is lost for files of type .f95 .f03. These were working fine before; I still have these extensions under Tool->Options-> IVF-->General-->free format. But when a file is opened or saved with f95 as extension, it loses syntax coloring.

I uninstalled all previous updates before installing this update.

Abhi

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

Steven_L_Intel1 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:56:02 GMT

I can reproduce this and will report it. Personally, I dislike use of file types to indicate standard versions. That's not what it's for.

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

abhimodak — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:07:16 GMT

Hi Steve

Does this happen because I uninstalled all previous updates to 11.1?

I don't think use of extension is an issue, the problem obviously is that something that was working before is not working now. While, for now, I would be fine with it, unfortunately, the decision on whether to update the compiler version on the company-wide basis does get affected.

As for the extensions, you are right that "non-standard" ones should be avoided. But on some other compilers .f95 is the default for free format (while some others have just .f). I guess .f, .for, .f90, and .f95 have been "commonly" used and hence our usage of .f95. I apologize if I am being too rude in stating this; that's far from my intention. I am just frustrated that I can't give a green to the update.

Sincerely

Abhi

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

Steven_L_Intel1 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:20:35 GMT

The Fortran standard does not say anything about the names of source files. When Fortran 90 was implemented, compiler developers needed a way to distinguish fixed-form from free-form and settled on the use of a file type of .f90 as meaning free-form. Other file types in use, such as .f, .for and .ftn, kept their classic meaning as fixed-form. I don't know any compiler that uses .f as meaning free-form.

Unfortunately, some people interpreted .f90 as meaning "Fortran 90" and then decided that if they were using a Fortran 95 compiler that they should rename all their sources .f95. And then we have .f03 and I assume .f08 in the future. I consider this misguided and unfortunate. In hindsight it would have been better to agree on something like .ffr as meaning Fortran free-form.

Nevertheless, we do have methods where users can specify additional file types as meaning fixed-form or free-form source. You are absolutely correct that the VS integration in Update 5 broke the source coloring for user-defined file types. I will report this to the developers and apologize for the inconvenience.

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

jarvusluntatintel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:22:58 GMT

I like the source coloring, but for fixed format files, it shows everything after the 72 column as gray, even though I have the extended line length set to 132. Any chance of this ever being fixed (or is the fixed format legacy code too small of a market)? If nothing else, I think I would prefer everything after 72 as being black/normal as opposed to green/gray.

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

Steven_L_Intel1 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:48:10 GMT

Jarvus,

I have had a feature request in on that issue for a while, but it seems unlikely to be implemented in the near future. I do strongly recommend using free-form source, and if you must use fixed-form, stick to column 72. I have a general distaste for code that requires language-changing switches to compile.

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

Steven_L_Intel1 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:55:48 GMT

Issue ID is DPD200150964.

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

Steven_L_Intel1 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:32:32 GMT

Now this is strange - I could reproduce this the other day, but can't anymore. Please try an uninstall and reinstall of the compiler and see what happens.

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

abhimodak — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:43:29 GMT

I will try it.

One thing that I would like to get clarified is:- Since I had every single upgrade since 11.0, I uninstalled them BEFORE installing update 5. Can that be, somehow, the source of this issue?

Abhi

p.s. Taking liberty to be a bit naughty, Steve, I thought you would be immune to such things as it works one-day and it doesn't the next-day... :)

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

Steven_L_Intel1 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:37:04 GMT

I suppose it's possible - however, I DID see it and I had not uninstalled the old versions.

Please do this for me - open "regedit.exe". Click on the + symbols next to the following names, in order: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Visual Studio, 9.0, Intel Fortran. (If you are using VS2005, replace 9.0 with 8.0.) Click on "111". From the File menu, select Export and export the 111 branch to a .reg file. Zip the file and attach it to a reply here.

syntax coloring for .f95 .f03 lost with update 5?

abhimodak — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:04:42 GMT

Hi Steve

Attached is the zip file. Sorry for the delay.

In the path you mentioned, I found that there is first VFToolOpt under Intel Fortran. In the VFTooOpt, I can see subfolders 100, 101, 110, 111 i.e. all version since 10. Each folder also shows all the subversions that I had installed.

Abhi