@akmbd166

yes it does, because there is specific code which is responsible doing it, nevertheless it is true what gerdb42 mentioned.
It isn’t saved within the file rather than the code is scanning every time if there is an url in the text which needs to be underlined.
So yes, you could argue it can be done but not in the way like word, writer, ms notepad, … it does. If you want to have such
functionality you basically need to write your own plugin to do it and as gerdb42 said, this is a different beast.

Cheers
Claudia

@Chris-Mckevitt

Scintilla is the component which
is used by notepad++ to do all the coloring, folding, styling, … stuff of your language.
A lexer is the component which calculates which parts should be colored, folded, styled etc…

Scintilla itself has already a lot of builtin lexers but it also provides an interface for writing
own lexers e.g. the UDL from npp. Those lexers are written by different programmers,
although they may use the same scintilla version they are slightly different in functionality
and representation. E.g. put the following python code into a doc and set the lexer to python

def foo(): # comment pass

you will see that folding starts from line 1 and includes line 3.
Use this vbs code and do the same (except you want select visual basic as lexer)

Sub Foo() 'comment End Sub

You will see that folding starts also at line 1 but doesn’t include the last line.
Even more critical is when pasting this, which from vbs syntax view is absolutely ok, into a doc.

Sub Foo() 'comment End Sub

This results in no folding at all. Why? Because the visual basic lexer programmer decided to
write the folding logic based on indention and not doing complex code analysis.
Which is fine, as long as the vbs user does the same kind of code styling.

So you see, even if one of the language lexer you use behaves the way you like,
there is no guarantee that others act the same.

When you want to write your own lexer than I would recommend to check the code of one of the existing lexers.
This Gmod LUA plugin is known to be a good example but must admit that I never used or checked the code myself.

Cheers
Claudia

@Nicolas-

Yes, unfortunately regex isn’t working.

Cheers
Claudia

In Settings > Preferences > Editing you can set the Default Directory to the Documents folder (or any folder you want)… that might be what you are looking for.

Thank you!

The simplest answer is, you don’t (add c++ or php or … to HTML, or run any of it in Notepad++). It appears you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how a page gets from a webserver to your web browser. This isn’t the forum for the details, but here are some hints. (It’s not rigorous… just some thoughts to get your mind moving in the right direction.)

Notepad++ is an editor, which you can use to edit the source code (for your HTML, CSS, JS, C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc). Once you have the source code, you can often debug them locally (assuming you have the appropriate tools) – but the end result is usually viewed through a local browser looking at your local copies or thru a local browser requesting the documents from a development server; Notepad++ can be given hooks to do portions of the testing (it can send source code to your c++ compiler; using the Preview HTML plugin, it can render into your Notepad++ window, so you can see gross functionality of the HTML; it can open the current HTML in your favorite or least favorite web browser using Notepad++'s Run > Launch in Firefox and similar, etc) – but Notepad++ doesn’t “run” the HTML+CSS+JS: it launches the helpers to do their thing.

Now for some more clearing up, regarding your questions about the other programming languages you mentioned: browsers (primarily) understand HTML, CSS, and JS. The server understands C++ (after it’s compiled), PHP, ASP, Python, Ruby, or Perl – those server-side technologies are used to generate HTML, CSS, and JS (or you can just have static HTML, CSS, and JS as files on the server). The server side code (C++, PHP, …) can be programmed to access a database using SQL or similar query languages, and manipulate the server-generated (non-static) HTML, CSS, and JS. (I think I’ve even heard that you can directly query a remote database using JS from the browser, but I don’t have much experience with that.)

The server side code will generate HTML/CSS/JS, often using inputs from forms submitted from the browser back to the server, and serves this HTML/CSS/JS to the browser. The browser interprets the HTML and CSS (and XML, XSS, …) to format the information from the server, and can run the JS locally (which can manipulate the HTML and CSS inside the browser and thus change what’s there locally).

To test a fully featured website, with server-side code, databases, and HTML/CSS/JS output, you will need basically another server: all the same tools with the same configuration on a local machine, or a second “development” server remotely accessed, or a private/hidden development area on the existing server to make sure you don’t mess up the released website. Once it’s all fully tested, then you release it to your production website, and away it goes.

There’s a lot more to all of this, none of which is on topic for a Notepad++ forum. If you need more, find some good books or classes on web development.

I have a very similar situation and am having a rough time getting the proper regular expressions in my functionList.xml for my user defined language. Here are some details and examples:

Functions are defined with the (always case insensitive) word “def” and may or may not be preceeded by a 5 digit number. all function names must start with “fn”
If a function has parameters they are included in parenthesis after the function name. Parameters will be seperated by commas. However one semi-colon may seperate all the optional parameters from the required ones (instead of a comma)
Examples

def fnwhat3ver
00100 def fnAnotherExample
DEF FNwithParameters(arg_number,arg_string$)
00200 Def FnWithOptional(par_12;par_option_3)

I really appreciate any help on this matter. I am a long time user and lover of Notepad++ and hope to implement this feature for myself and to win over some new n++ users.

-John

I believe you need to install the notepadd++ as PORTABLE. Once you do that than it will look to the working directory for it’s userdefined languages and such. Then, once you have it all set up, you can zip up and ship out that whole directory with all the settings, etc. Hope this helps.

I would recommand to try uninstall Notepad++, reboot the computer, verify there isn’t any files in all Notepad++'s folders (C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++, and %appdata%\Notepad++) and then reinstall it.

Solved.
It turns out, “HOME” key in keyboard is always pressed :D

P.S. Sorry for my bad english (google translate)