@TedTester ,

HexPat…Is this fancy XML?
The last one has a file extension of “hexpat”.

Never heard of a standard filetype that uses that extension.

A quick internet search tells me that maybe it’s a file that goes with the ImHex application, and here is an example – it doesn’t look at all like XML to me, so if that’s the format, the answer to your title is “no, it is not fancy XML”. It looks a lot more like a C source-code file (and, from my research, appears to be a config-style file for the ImHex open-source hex-editor app, which it uses to help it interpret specific binary formats).

But I cannot know if that filetype is the same as the .hexpat file you found, because you were rather nebulous (other than you thought it looked like fancy XML, which makes me doubt it, because to my mind, the example I found and what you described are two very different formats)

If I were looking at that kind of .hexpat file, I would choose the C lexer: Settings > Style Configurator > Language: C, add hexpat to the User ext.: box, then every time you load a *.hexpat file, it would choose the C lexer for syntax highlighting.

If it really looks more like <tagName attrib="value"><nested id="12345">text</nested><single setting="false" /></tagName>, then I would add that value in the User ext.: box for XML instead of C.

Edit: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hexpat-0.12

That link is about a library for the Haskell programming language which is used to parse XML. It is not a description of a file format or of a unique programming language, so it might have nothing to do with the .hexpat file you found – or maybe that library uses a .hexpat as an intermediate filetype (but the page you linked doesn’t say it does, and nothing I see there leads me to believe that the library and the extension are in any way linked; given that the other code in this repo you found are python files, I’d be surprised if there was also a file related to a haskell library).

Can you share a link to the .hexpat file itself?

Didn’t know if it is on the list to be added or not.

Notepad++ does not have a “list of languages to be added”. Notepad++ uses the library called “Lexilla” to handle that part of the codebase, so if the Lexilla project were updated to handle the .hexpat text-based file format specifically, then Notepad++ would have access to it … and once it was part of Lexilla, then someone could request that the Notepad++ developers add in the support for it. (Not that it’s relevant at this point in time, but a post in the Community of Notepad++ users is not the right place for feature requests, as our FAQ explains. But you are nowhere near the level of being ready to even officially make a feature request, so don’t worry about it for now.)

Unless the .hexpat file extension were a lot more common than it appears to be (based on the lack of solid information about it, and possible collisions in the “hexpat” namespace across the internet), it is doubtful that it’s “important” enough to get added to Lexilla and thus would not propagate to Notepad++ either.

For languages not found in Notepad++'s built-in language list, users are expected to:

find a language that’s close enough: for example, parsing a header-looking file format like I linked with the C lexer, or an XML-based fileformat with the XML lexer, using the User ext box to associate that extension with a specific language, as I described above use the User Defined Language feature to add simple keyword-based syntax highlighting write (or commission someone to write) a lexer plugin

Seems it is arriving …
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/15750

@Kristy-Atkins said in FTP Plugin is Worthless:

I need to be able to download multiple fileS from multiple website folderS on the server to
MATCHING folders in my local website folder.

I had forgotten, because I’ve never used that feature, but NppFTP has “Cache Paths” ability, which allows you to map specific local paths for specific remote paths.

Go to your Profile Settings in NppFTP, and pick the profile for your host. Go to the Cache tab. put in the Local Path and External Path for the first pair, Add New; then repeat for additional folders. So, it already has that particular feature you requested, and your ire was misplaced on that one.

I also need the FTP manager to be able to sort

Sorting would be nice, and was asked for some time back… but apparently, someone who has a full-time job outside of NppFTP development, who is 100% volunteer, just hasn’t found the right Round Tuit™ to implement sorting. Since you imply that you have enough skills to write a full plugin, maybe you could put your effort into making the existing plugin better, and develop a PR that would implement sorting of the remote files list.

update:

I need to be able to select specific fileS in my LOCAL website folderS using a client side ‘tree’ and upload them to the matching folders on the server

Use the Folder as Workspace or similar feature in Notepad++, and open the file(s) that you care about. Then, as long as the Cache Paths have been set up correctly and NppFTP is running, whenever you save the file in Notepad++, it will upload to the appropriate server location. But NppFTP isn’t meant as a full-featured FTP tool – it’s focused on the files you are editing in Notepad++, so if you want to easily upload a file that’s not open in Notepad++, you can either open it in Notepad++ and save it to trigger, or you could use a standalone FTP client for any files that you don’t want to open in Notepad++ (including non-text files, like images). And I second @Jim-Dailey’s suggestion of WinSCP, as that’s a good tool, and includes features for keeping remote-and-local in sync, which it sounds like what you want to do.

@PeterJones Thank you for solving my query!

Anything you can do with Columns++ can (in principle) be done with PythonScript, and Python allows arbitrarily large integers.

The UDL can handle doing different colors for `single backticks` vs triple

``` long code ```

For example, here is a screenshot using the “markdown (preinstalled)” UDL that comes with Notepad++:
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Then, if I remove the single ticks from Delimiter 2 and move it to Delimiter 8 (which was empty before) and give 8 a different color, it works just fine:

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The one thing to keep in mind with making Delimiters for “triple” vs “single”: you have to put the triple before the single, otherwise when it’s doing it’s parsing, it will match on the single rule first. (It searches through the delimiters in the 1-8 order)

And if you wanted to allow specific keywords (say keyword8) inside the triple quotes (delimiter 2), then you can go into the styler for delimiter2 and allow keyword8 inside:
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I am not sure what you were trying to indicate with the “BNF” in your question: if you just meant keywords, then I’ve shown it works. But something like the @udtf(...) would be more difficult – at least with the way “markdown (preinstalled)” is defined. And getting full python highlighting inside of the code-block markdown is not possible, the way that UDL and N++ is implemented.

But, at some point, based on the complexity you are describing, it might go beyond what UDL is capable of: UDL was meant for “simple” syntaxes, and if you wanted something more complicated, then the idea was that a lexer plugin could be the next step to bridge the gap between UDL and what N++ provides natively.

GREAT! Thanks. The search expression worked.

@jafet-Figueroa

There’s also jn-npp-emmet, a JavaScript extension for the jN plugin (a.k.a “jn-npp-plugin”), which has a fairly recent 64-bit version. First you install jN, then install the scripts, as per the instructions.

@Bruno-Bonaspetti ,

Have a little patience. You already asked that question yesterday here. This is not paid support that is guaranteed to get a reply in 5 minutes or your money back; this is a Community of fellow users of Notepad++, and as such, any who read here regularly and answer questions do so solely on their free time, and they might not always have time to answer a specific question – especially one that might take more knowledge of a specific sub-tool of Notepad++.

Furthermore, this topic, “Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript” is focused on the Dialog Wrapper library for the PythonScript plugin; it briefly mentioned a script that was using that wrapper to help with the user interface, but the translation is not the focus of this discussion.

Your original question was in the right place. This question was not. I will try to give a brief answer in the other topic.

As an example, I want to trigger my action wehn saving a file with the extension .special. When I open a file log.txt and select saveAs and enter log.special, then I still get the Filename log.txt from NPPN_FILEBEFORESAVE, hence my action will not trigger

As @Coises said, NPPN_FILESAVED should be used to listen for when a file is finished saving. As the name implies, NPPN_FILEBEFORESAVE fires before the file is saved, so you should not be too surprised that you get the old name of the buffer when you respond to this notification.

To respond to a file being renamed, use NPPN_FILEBEFORERENAME, NPPN_FILERENAMED and NPPN_FILERENAMECANCEL.

You need a global variable, the name of a file that is being renamed. Let’s call it fileToRename.

When you receive an scNotification with code NPPN_FILEBEFORERENAME, set fileToRename, to the name of the buffer to be renamed (use NPPM_GETFULLPATHFROMBUFFERID with WPARAM = scNotification->Header.idFrom) When you receive an scNotification with code NPPN_FILERENAMECANCEL, set fileToRename to NULL, because the file rename operation was cancelled. When you receive an scNotification with code NPPN_FILERENAMED, you can set fileToRename to the name of the file after being renamed (use NPPM_GETFULLPATHFROMBUFFERID with WPARAM = scNotification->Header.idFrom)

If you don’t care about what the name of the file was before after it was renamed, you can also only listen to NPPN_FILERENAMED.

FWIW, just FYI:
The Mistpen malware is a modification of a legitimate plugin for the Notepad++ open-source text and source code editor.
Ref: https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-targeting-job-seekers/

Another link: https://therecord.media/north-korea-hackers-energy-aerospace

It seems the malware in question reuses only the ability of binhex, but not uses Notepad++ as loader.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15603

@Dennis-McEnaney ,

What do you mean by “Unicode ‘Tags’ symbols”? Do you mean like 👍 is U+1F44D ? So something like 65014dfd-0070-4c2e-858c-5d43694fc98f-image.png being shown like 46e0db8c-ab83-4cbf-9490-f835d7e5e511-image.png ?

if so, that’s an interesting feature request (though I personally doubt it would be implemented, even if you made an official feature request, as described in this FAQ; without following those instructions, I can guarantee it won’t be implemented, because the developer wouldn’t know you wanted it). ‡

As a workaround, I have a script WhatUniChar.py for the PythonScript plugin – if you download it, and follow the instructions in this PythonScript FAQ to install the PythonScript plugin and script, then you can run that script and the statusbar will temporarily change to show you the character information:
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(I have that script associated with a keyboard shortcut, so I can just put the caret before the interesting Unicode character, and use that shortcut, and it will tell me what the character is.)

‡: As you might guess from my screenshot, it was actually feasibility for Notepad++ to do this: Notepad++ uses the SCI_SETREPRESENTATION command when making those boxes, so my screenshot was made by using the PythonScript plugin to send editor1.setRepresentation(u'\U0001F44D', 'U+1F44D') to set the representation for just the 👍 character. In theory, you could run a loop in PythonScript to go from U+0080 through U+10FFFF to make all those representations. I just don’t think that the developer would be interested in adding that to the Show All Characters choices (I think similar things have been asked before, and rejected or ignored.)

OK, should have mentioned here I had created an issue on GITHUB. OK, one remains, that’s fine.

@General-Coder ,

My guess is that @myGitAlex thought that showing you another example of a GUI written in C# would be helpful – maybe assuming you were asking “how do I write any GUI for my plugin using C#”, not realizing you were asking for a very specific question about accessing specific parts of the native Notepad++ GUI from your plugin, even though they don’t have plugin API calls.

Issue created: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15506

It does not work for me. It seems never to receive keyboard focus although I can click my mouse and copy text from the results window, nor is there a delete entry in the context (right-click) menu. All keyboard events go to the active tab window

@Vitaly-Gelman ,

I wonder if there is a way to set a background to grey for a disabled block of C code

Use editor.styleSetBack(...) instead of editor.styleSetFore(...)

Also, where can I find a description of editor.styleSetFore() function

If you click on editor.styleSetFore() in your script inside Notepad++, and use Plugins > PythonScript > Context-Help, it will take you to the PythonScript documentation for styleSetFore, which tells you that the second argument is the color

namely the second argument (clr). What are the three integers there?

The “color” to use. Specifically, the three integers in the tuple are the red, green, and blue values. In my calculation, I had it set the “disabled/hidden preprocessor section” (aka “SCE_C_PREPROC_HIDDEN”) to the foreground color that’s halfway between the foreground and background of a normal preprocessor (which is a reasonable hidden value, whether in Light Mode or Dark Mode).

So if you want to set the background, you would have to pick red/green/blue values that make sense given your theme, and use editor.styleSetBack(self.SCE_C_PREPROC_HIDDEN, ...) where ... is either a tuple variable (like clr) or a literal tuple (like (63,63,63)).

(Please note that Scintilla, and thus Notepad++, treat the #if 0 exactly the same as the #ifdef NOTDEFINED, so there is no way to distinguish between a hardcoded #if 0 and the define-based #ifdef NOTDEFINED – so I hope you weren’t asking to be able to distinguish between the two, as you would be disappointed if you were.)

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PS: the styleSetFore() didn’t specifically describe that a “color” was in a tuple, because near the top of the Editor Object page, there is a paragraph which says,

Colours are a tuple of (red, green, blue) where each of red, green, and blue is between 0 and 255.

… and that paragraph applies to all “color/colour” arguments throughout the documentation.

So glad this is in the latest build!

Small Demo here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/notepadplusplus/comments/1e6eceq/blitz_search_in