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Add Syntax Highlighting for Cypher in Sublime Text 3

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Jan Klaas Kollhof (and Fred Benenson)
Chris Skardon

Installation

Since the original plugin has been developed for Sublime Text 2 we have to install it manually.

Go to https://github.com/fredbenenson/sublime-cypher, download ZIP of the repo, extract the content and rename the folder to ‘Cypher’. You can download the original repo from https://github.com/kollhof/sublime-cypher but Fred Benenson introduced a handy fix for UTF-8 data, which hasn't integrated at the point of this writing.
Open Sublime Text 3, and go to ‘Browse Packages’ (CTRL + COMMAND + P then type ‘browse’ and hit ENTER)
In the file browser's window, move the previously downloaded folder from Step 1 into here.
Restart Sublime Text 3.
Open a file containing some Cypher queries and switch to Cypher mode (CTRL + COMMAND + P then type ‘Cypher’ and hit ENTER)

BSCowboy commented Jan 16, 2017

Thanks for creating the installation.

radcliff commented Apr 26, 2017

🥇

chaonan99 commented Nov 11, 2017

You may still need to modify Cypher.py if you are using Python3. I've fixed this compatibility problem in my fork.

gsumar commented May 8, 2018

Nice

ghost commented Jun 6, 2018

Let say you are in PHP syntax mode. Easily switch to Cypher by clicking on the PHP text at the bottom right. You will find a list of language syntaxes to choose from there.

lovesuper commented Mar 10, 2019

Thank you very much!

BeardedUncleX commented Sep 29, 2019

fantastic!

cskardon commented Jul 16, 2020

Hey @flekschas - Just fyi - I've added all the 4.1 keywords and functions in my fork (https://github.com/cskardon/sublime-cypher) based off of @fredbenenson's fork.