User defined language seems to support only one extension

[André Programmeren]

Hello,

I have constructed support for a user defined language. It is for Clojure and it supports de clj extension. If I add another extension, it does not highlight syntax for that one. E.g. cljs.

What can I possibly do wrong?

André

[PeterJones]

@André-Programmeren ,

It supports multiple extensions just fine. I use that every day (with md markdown meaning blah.md and blah.markdown both get markdown highlighting). And clj cljs would be the right syntax for doing multiple extensions.

The UDL extension recognition only applies when you first create or open a file – if you already had the blah.cljs file open as “Normal text” when you edited the UDL, you would have to close the file and reopen (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Shift+T), at which point it should see that it has the right extension, and use the UDL syntax highlighting. If that’s not it, you’ll have to give a bit more info.

[André Programmeren]

Re-opening the file in Notepad++ did the trick indeed. As far as I remember I stopped and re-started Notepad++ but that didn’t help.

Thanks,

André

[PeterJones]

@André-Programmeren said:

As far as I remember I stopped and re-started Notepad++

Notepad++ saved it’s current language for that file (plain text) in the session config, then used that saved session config when you restarted. (This is a critical feature when one extension can have multiple meanings, and you have overridden the default language for a particular file)

OTOH, if you close the file, Notepad++ discards meta-information, like what language was previously served, and so re-applies its internal rules and will see the UDL extension when you re-open the file.