Less: No highlighting

I have a strange problem, across all projects, and even on a different pc, I get no syntax highlight in Less. Files compile fine and everything, just no highlight (or intellisense).

I don't really know what else info I can give you to resolve this, I only have resharper and chirpy installed, and chirpy is configured to ignore .less files.

Hi,

That doesn't sound very good! Some questions:

• Is it the same .less file? Perhaps you could attach it and we could see if it works here?
• Is chirpy installed on all the machines you've tested on? We have quite a few weird issues crop up when folks work with Chirpy so could you potentially try turning it off completely to see if that fixes it?

Thanks, we'll help get it sorted for you,

John-Daniel

The problem is irrelevant to the file, new files and old alike.

Turns out chirpy is the culprit, as disabling it isn't enough, I needed to uninstall it. Thanks for the attention to this

Fabian de Groot's "Minifier" extension caused this same problem for me, uninstalling it resolved the issue. For minification and bundling we're using SquishIt, which doesn't override any of Visual Studio's normal behavior, sidestepping this bug.

Hi,

I have the same problem with chirpy installed, however when i disabled chirpy in the ad-in manager all comes back to normal.

Also, everything was working fine, even with chirpy enabled, up to the moment where i activated my copy of workbench. Could you please tell me how to deactivate workbench on my PC so i can go back to a unregistered copy ?

That leaves one feature request: Allow us to disable minification, just like we can turn off intellisense (that might fix this issue). Like i said, it was working fine, in conjunction with chirpy, up to the moment that i activated my copy.

The only thing i really wanted from the pro version was:

• Built-in function signature help for Sass & LESS
• Format document function for Sass & LESS.
• Comment & uncomment block & lines.
• And of course show some support because i think this kind of plugin is awesome for VS !

Unfortunately i need chirpy more than i need workbench, but if i could have both, that would be cool.

Thanks, Robert

P.S. I gave Squishit a try, but for our projects i prefer working with chirpy.config to configure my bundles, because some files need to remain uncompressed, and some need certain compressors with certain switches while others require other switches.