# Editor - colored keywords
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/editor-colored-keywords/28456
**Category:** General
**Created:** [17 June 2020 08:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/editor-colored-keywords/28456 "2020-06-17T08:09:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@softy2k](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/softy2k)
#### Post date: [17 June 2020 08:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/editor-colored-keywords/28456/1 "2020-06-17T08:09:29Z")
In Editor, most reserved keywords are automatically colored.
But, there are some that are (not yet) colored, such as: `hasOwnProperty`,` trim` (msg.payload.trim ()) etc.
What is the possibility of them being colored automatically ?
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### Author:  [@ristomatti](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ristomatti)
#### Post date: [17 June 2020 08:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/editor-colored-keywords/28456/2 "2020-06-17T08:46:40Z")
The coloring ability is dependent on the ACE editor which is embedded within Node-RED. I doubt it makes sense for the devs to start modifying it. Naturally only Nick/Dave can answer this.
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### Author:  [@kuema](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kuema)
#### Post date: [17 June 2020 10:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/editor-colored-keywords/28456/3 "2020-06-17T10:08:28Z")
Compared to a full-featured IDE or rich editors like VSCode with a language server and all that, ACE can only make basic assumptions about the semantics and types in the script.
One should also keep in mind that `hasOwnProperty` and ` trim` aren't JS language keywords, those are just regular functions on certain objects. And since `msg.payload` could be anything, `trim()` won't get any special highlighting.
So I doubt there will ever be any 'advanced' highlighting (or advanced code completion) in ACE.
A forum member tried to integrate the Monaco editor: [Using Monaco editor - monaco branch now in fork](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/using-monaco-editor-monaco-branch-now-in-fork/26561)
From what I saw it would offer some more features regarding all that, but that is all just a proof-of-concept at the moment.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [16 August 2020 10:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/editor-colored-keywords/28456/4 "2020-08-16T10:08:30Z")
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