With the Syntax Coloring Scheme Editor, you can create your own syntax coloring schemes for use with AceText. You can edit the schemes included with AceText as well as those you’ve downloaded. The syntax coloring schemes files have a .jgcscs extension. You can’t edit them with any program except the Syntax Coloring Scheme Editor. You can download the scheme editor at https://www.editpadpro.com/cscs.html. The editor is a free download for all licensed AceText users. Full documentation is included. AceText 4 uses the same syntax coloring schemes as EditPad 8.
You only need to edit syntax coloring schemes if you want to change which text they highlight. For example, you could edit the syntax coloring for C/C++ to create a scheme for another C-style programming language. You don’t need to edit the syntax coloring schemes if you only want to change the red/green/blue colors they use or which clips they are applied to. You can do that on the Syntax page in the Preferences. There you can customize the palette to change the colors that the syntax coloring schemes use. You can also change the file masks that are used to automatically assign syntax coloring schemes to clips created from files.
The syntax coloring schemes included with AceText are stored in the folder where you have AceText installed, typically C:\Program Files\Just Great Software\AceText. Windows’s default security settings do not allow normal users to modify files under C:\Program Files. Therefore, schemes that you download and schemes that you edit are saved under your Windows user profile, typically C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\JGsoft\AceText 4. If a scheme with the same file name exists in both the user profile folder and the program files folder, only the scheme in the user profile folder will be available in AceText. Schemes loaded from your Windows user profile are marked with (user) in the drop-down list with syntax coloring schemes in the AceText Editor.