UDL comment entries.

PeterJones

I created a new language called “Pasha”. I set Comment Line Style Open to #, and Comment Style Open=/* and Close=*/.

I then exited Notepad++ to get it to save, then opened the XML. I correctly see:

...
    <UserLang name="Pasha" ext="" udlVersion="2.1">
        <Settings>
            <Global caseIgnored="no" allowFoldOfComments="no" foldCompact="no" forcePureLC="0" decimalSeparator="0" />
            <Prefix Keywords1="no" Keywords2="no" Keywords3="no" Keywords4="no" Keywords5="no" Keywords6="no" Keywords7="no" Keywords8="no" />
        </Settings>
        <KeywordLists>
            <Keywords name="Comments">00# 01 02 03/* 04*/</Keywords>
...

So it is populating for me. So I don’t know what you are doing wrong that it “appears NOT TO MAKE IT INTO”.

PeterJones

@pasha-19 ,

And in this example, I can make Folding In Comment work.

<NotepadPlus>
    <UserLang name="Pasha" ext="" udlVersion="2.1">
        <Settings>
            <Global caseIgnored="no" allowFoldOfComments="no" foldCompact="no" forcePureLC="0" decimalSeparator="0" />
            <Prefix Keywords1="no" Keywords2="no" Keywords3="no" Keywords4="no" Keywords5="no" Keywords6="no" Keywords7="no" Keywords8="no" />
        </Settings>
        <KeywordLists>
            <Keywords name="Comments">00# 01 02 03/* 04*/</Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, prefix1"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, prefix2"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, extras1"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, extras2"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, suffix1"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, suffix2"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, range"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Operators1"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Operators2"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code1, open"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code1, middle"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code1, close"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code2, open"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code2, middle"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code2, close"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in comment, open">CommentFolderOpen</Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in comment, middle"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in comment, close">CommentFolderClose</Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords1"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords2"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords3"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords4"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords5"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords6"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords7"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords8"></Keywords>
            <Keywords name="Delimiters"></Keywords>
        </KeywordLists>
        <Styles>
            <WordsStyle name="DEFAULT" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="COMMENTS" fgColor="008080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="LINE COMMENTS" fgColor="008040" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="NUMBERS" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS1" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS2" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS3" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS4" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS5" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS6" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS7" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS8" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="OPERATORS" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN CODE1" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN CODE2" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN COMMENT" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFF80" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS1" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS2" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS3" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS4" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS5" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS6" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS7" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS8" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
        </Styles>
    </UserLang>
</NotepadPlus>

PeterJones

If you want #case# to be your indicator, then you need to remember the # is the start of comment, so it doesn’t go in the Folding in Comment boxes. Here’s working with #case#, #cond#, and #esac# in the code getting interpreted properly as Folding in Comments:

PeterJones

BTW: my general procedure for starting a new UDL: I open the dialog, immediately Save As… and give it a name (without having made any settings yet). Then I Export… into the userDefineLangs\ directory. Then I Remove it. I know, that doesn’t make intuitive sense, but this is because I want the UDL in its own file, rather than in the old userDefineLang.xml contains-all-UDLs file. I then restart Notepad++, and it reads the definition from the userDefineLangs\ directory, so it’s available again. Then I start editing the UDL.

You don’t have to do it that way… but that’s just how I do it.

pasha-19

@peterjones This last comment makes great sense. I will try again. However without reloading I mapped the Markdown preinstalled dark mode to the various screens.

yellow, green, blue, gray and purple all appear to match.

the red appears to be missing.

Operators $ Delimeters.png markdown(color).png Keywords lists.png Folder & Default.png Comment & Number.png

PeterJones

@pasha-19 ,

I already showed exactly where 3 of the 5 Comment Line Style and Comment Style settings get saved, and the other two obviously fit between.

<Keywords name="Comments">00# 01 02 03/* 04*/</Keywords>

The 00 maps to Comment Line Style Open; 01 and 02 to the middle and close. 03 is Comment Open and 04 is Comment Close.

And my screenshot showed that they were properly coloring.

I don’t know what more I can show you.

pasha-19

@peterjones I thank you for your efforts.

PeterJones

@peterjones

pasha-19

I downloaded the file (001-download)
I extracted to an empty directory (002-extract)
I created an exported empty file as you wisely suggested. (003-EmptyExportedFile)
I removed the file I exported.
I restarted NP++
I updated three entries, ext and two comment entries (004-restartNP++_n_update)

here is the updated file (005-updatedfile) the ext change made it into the file the two comment entries did not.

Again many thanks your suggestion about creating separate files was great. 004-restartNP++_n_update.png

pasha-19

I tried this using 4 flavors of 8.3.1 install 64 & 32 bit and portable 64 & 32 bit – they all failed for me. POSITIVE NEWS – I then tried 8.2.1 portable 64 bit it works for me just like your example. If there is a problem it appears to be in 8.3.1.

Thanks – looks like 8.2.1 may be the answer for me.

PeterJones

@pasha-19 ,

I must apologize for being obtuse.

After looking into this report and this issue #11239, it looks like v8.3.1 is doing something weird with the UDL comment entries, but worked properly in v8.3 and earlier. I now think there was a regression in the UDL Comment handling in v8.3.1. Given the description you showed above – especially with the XML showing single-digit rather than double-digit in the tag value – I believe the problems you were having with Comment Line syntax are caused by the same issue.

Hopefully it will be fixed in the next release of Notepad++ – until then, stick with v8.2.1. And again, sorry for not groking what you were trying to say.