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| Phil23 Guru  Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Hi All, I find myself constantly using Notepad++ as a secondary editor. Usually have the code I'm working on open in MMedit & other snippets & test code on the tabs in Notepad++. If I select Visual Basic as the language, the formatting is close to what I see in MMedit. Is there a keyword list for MMbasic I can download & use to define a custom language so I can configure NP++ to display the same as MMedit? Had a look at Crimson Editor, but it reminded me I'd tried it before & then moved on to NP++. One thing I like in NP++ is that it can open remembering all the files you previously had open. And if you were to have say Test.bas open, then open it & make changes in MMedit, NP++ will notify you that the file has changed since being opened & ask you if you want to refresh the tab it's displayed in. If I can get a keyword list & define the language, it can then export it as an XML file that anyone can use. cheers Phil |
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redrok Senior Member  Joined: 15/09/2014 Location: United StatesPosts: 209 |
Ditto everything Phil23 said except for "EditPLUS", my favorite editor. Thanks! redrok |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Googling EditPLUS Vs NotePad++....... Have used MMEdit2 for the 2nd editor with multiple files open. Great in the way it can list & collapse the subs etc, but what I miss is the notification of a file being changed & needing to be reloaded. Cheers. |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5914 |
To get a keyword list, you can copy the one from MMEdit. It is called keywords.dat and lives in the MMEdit data folder. You can find the data folder from 'About' in the help menu. The lists are not complete but close. The keywords.dat file is re-written each time you select a syntax file so there will be a number of files you need to use depending on the devices you wish to support. I use Notepad++ also and have been playing with a plugin to send the file to your device. Still early days. I don't have a working syntax file for MMBasic. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Been playing with this on & off for a while now. Slowly changing the User Defined language in Notepad++. I've got a fair bit of it working. Not sure how current the Keyword list is. HEX numbers were a little tricky. I haven't added all the delimiters & operators yet as it's still WIP. The delimiters & operators are displayed in pink, only so I can see what's happening to the text etc on either side of them, helps with defining the language. Only have the folder set for SUBs, FUNCTIONs, & SELECT CASE at this stage. Haven't quite worked out how to get it all working in sync once I add IF's & LOOPs. Multi line IF's has me a bit stumped. If anyone wants to give it a try, just import the MMbasic.xml from the zip file into the Notepad's User Defined Languages. Cheers Phil. 2017-05-09_205521_MMbasic.zip |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3019 |
Ok, colors--thank you. The only thing that jumps out at me initially is that in CFunctions, some of the numbers display in red and some in black.  MMEdit does the same, but different numbers are red. This is of no consequence to me. I use npp a lot, so thanks for this. Lance PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5914 |
That is something that is difficult to do anything about. NPP looks at a 'word' and if it only contains numerals it is a number. Added to that it can contain a sign '-' e for exponential and still be a number. Depending on the lexer, HEX numbers will appear as a number but they usually need &h, 0X etc In MMEdit, if the 'word' starts with a numeral it is treated as a number. This means that a variable such as 1X will display as a number but X1 will display as a word. The only way is to turn off colouring at the start of a cfunction and back on at the end. That requires greater control of the Scintilla gadget that is doing the hard work. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
I think it's something to do with looking at things in 2 ways. First NP++ looks forward in the "String", then it can look backwards at the same data to arrive at the correct decision. I never did look at cFunctions... But I presume the same thing might happen with font definitions. |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
That seems to be related to the "Prefix 2" in the numbers definition. See in these examples, adding 0-F in this field should fix that bit. Dunno if it will break it else where. Phil.   |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Not really readable above, but Prefix 2 needs:- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 A B C D E F  In the above example I just added C & 1 after the &H for a test. Phil |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Updated XML file for the above change. 2017-05-10_103612_MMbasic.zip  Phil |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3019 |
Looks good. Thank you. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| cdeagle Senior Member Joined: 22/06/2014 Location: United StatesPosts: 261 |
Twistpad on a Windows 7 PC seems to do a good job of colorizing the MMBASIC keywords and comments. |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Does anyone understand "Parsers" well enough to be willing to have a look at getting the function list going in NP++ for the User Defined Language I've been posting? There's an explanation on this page, about how to set it up, but I don't understand the syntax. It also mentions that in the case of a User Defined Language, like mine above:- [Code]if langID cannot be found above, you can set the file extensions ... <association id="my_parser_id" ext=".my_parser_ext1" /> <association id="my_parser_id" ext=".my_parser_ext2" /> and for User Defined Languages (UDL's) use ... <association id="my_parser_id" userDefinedLangName="My UDL Name" />[/code] Having the Function List working would provide a huge editing advantage for MMbasic, and I presume the required Parser will only need about 3 keywords, SUB, FUNCTION & SELECT CASE. Cheers Phil. |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Really Don't understand the XML here, but getting this result...  Notice it's picking up the End Sub & End Function words.... this is the Parser I'm using, wbut it's a bit out of my depth. [Code]<function mainExpr="((SUB|FUNCTION)).*?(?:\(|$)" displayMode="$className->$functionName"> [/code] Can anyone tell me how to make it ignore the END SUB & END FUNCTION lines? This is the entire functionList.xml I'm working with ('we are hacking a VB section pasted near the end). Would be great if someone could help out in getting the last step. Cheers Phil. Probably need my Language file from earlier in this thread. 2017-05-12_070330_functionList.zip |
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