Comments on: Notepad++ User Defined Language file for MDX Syntax Highlighting

By: ricardo

ricardo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:46:30 +0000

Yeah that works. There are not that many tags that have to be closed, so it won’t clutter things too much. It’s probably the best solution, so thanks for the feedback.

What confuses me though is that in your example above you show the exact same setup. You have a forward slash as an operator, and also as the start of two kinds of comments. Does this cause problems for you? Just curious if mine’s different.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:34:24 +0000

Yeah, just define the closing tags as keywords and take the / out of operators. The following node works for your example for the if and loop blocks.

'00'00

- ! & ( ) , ; ? [ ] | + < = >
1/* 2*/ 0//
var local include return map array pair true false fail abort email_send action_param valid_email string_replaceregexp redirect_url loop_count
$ #
if /if else protect iterate loop /loop define_tag handle_error
trim size substring insert find input removeall

By: ricardo

ricardo — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:55:18 +0000

The language is called LassoScript or Lasso, it’s a proprietary middleware for tying together web pages, databases, and so on, and has its own scripting syntax. Here are some short pieces of code that shows the problem:

// This should be a comment
/* This should also be a comment */

// Simple conditional statement
if($condition == ‘true’;
‘Do this thing’;
/if;

// Simple looping contstruct
loop(3);
‘Do this three times’;
/loop;

The forward slash is used for comments, but also to signify a closing tag. This causes a problem for Notepad++.

Here are some links to sample files. One is a code sample. One is my Notepad++ syntax file. It is not filled in with all the possible keywords, since I have just started to get it going. The last file is a small screencap of what my Notepad++ does with those two files mentioned. The links below are temporary, I hope this doesn’t mess up your web page.

http://members.cox.net/mikeoscrope/temp/userDefineLang.xml
http://members.cox.net/mikeoscrope/temp/99_bottles_of_root_beer.lasso
http://members.cox.net/mikeoscrope/temp/notepad++_result.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso_programming_language

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:29:35 +0000

Can you include a link to your UserLang node and a sample of whatever language this is for?

By: ricardo

ricardo — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:10:03 +0000

Thank you for sharing this information. I am trying to implement a very similar syntax highlighting with Notepad++ but I get a strange error. My code is almost exactly like yours, but here’s what happens:

Using forward slash as an operator makes the forward slash NOT WORK as the start of a comment. My configuration is just like yours, but the comments don’t work. Every use of the forward slash is interpreted as an operator.

Does this happen in your Notepad++?