Local Ace won't highlight right away

[davidgatti]

I have the following situation. I added a new rule to highlight some simple keywords. When I was writing them down one by one, Ace was coloring the words correctly, as seen in the screenshot bellow...

And once I had everything, all was nice and blue. But once I saved my work, and restarted Ace, no highlights to be seen.

If I delete the regex and start adding regexp rule one by one again, Ace will start coloring the words again. Is this normal behaviour?

[nightwing]

Are there any errors in browser console? Does highlighting start to work if you add a space at the end of the file (or do ctrl-a ctrl-c ctrl-v) instead of deleting the regexp.

By the way, is this question related to #3511?

[davidgatti]

While writing you a reply I did find the problem, somehow I ended up having the same regexp rule twice. I think the live editor for development is a blessing and a cure at the same time. I think I ended up not hitting save again.

I think it be nice in the future to add the following to the editor

• Have a banner showing the the changes can't be saved locally, and what to do to enable that.
• Pop a message if the changes are not saved and you try to close the window.

I think this might minimize any confusion.