The Keyword List Properties dialog allows you to add and remove keywords from the list selected in the Session Options/Terminal/Appearance category as well as to configure how those keywords are displayed.

Name

This box displays the name of the current keyword list.

Keywords group

This group allows you to configure how keywords are displayed in your session window.

Word

Enter a word or regular expression and press the Add button to add it to the list. Keywords and regular expressions cannot contain spaces.

Keyword is regular expression

Check this box to indicate that the word is a regular expression. The following are examples of regular expressions:

   IPv4 address: \d*\.\d*\.\d*\.\d*

   IPv6 address: ([A-Fa-f0-9]{1,4}::?){1,7}[A-Fa-f0-9]{1,4}

   Match everything after a keyword and an equal sign (e.g., “error=12345”): error=.*

Note: The regular expressions should use ECMAScript syntax.

Keyword list

This is an ordered list of keywords and regular expressions. Keywords are matched using the order in the list.  As soon as a match is found, the keyword is highlighted. To reorder the list, select the keyword that you want to reposition and use the buttons to the right of the list to move the keyword up or down.

The word delimiters for keyword highlighting are the following:

` ~!#$%^&*()+=:;<>,.?/\[]{}|'

Match case

Check this box to indicate that the case of all the keywords in the list should be matched.

Set Color…

Select one or more keywords in the list and press this button to set their color.

Edit

Press this button to make changes to the selected keyword.

Remove

Press this button to remove the selected keyword(s).

Delete List

Press this button to remove the entire keyword list.

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