You could look to see if anyone wrote a BASIC “lexer” for Scintilla (the editor control Notepad++ uses). There is a Visual Basic one already in Notepad++ but guess there is enough differences for that to not really work (sorry, never used BASIC or VB or VB.net)? I also found one in the current source for “blitzbasic”, “purebasic” and “freebasic”, but does not appear to be active in Notepad++.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/scintilla/lexers/LexBasic.cxx

To just color “keywords” (e.g. “if”, “else”, “return”, etc.) you have the built in “User defined language” feature (Language -> define Your language…).

If there are language features you want more complex than what that can handle (context sensitive keywords, string interpolation, etc.) you can write your own lexer DLL. I have been prototyping some stuff at https://github.com/wnewbery/npp-languages which creates a plugin DLL for Notepad++ to load extra languages/styles from. Still deciding how want to deal with code folding, etc., but you have the default ones as complete examples of the lexer part.

The file extension thing would mean you must manually select the language each time. Although personally a more plugable way would be great as a feature, BASIC is not alone for that (e.g. things like makefile, Gemfile, or Linux scripts using a shebang)

In the past I’ve tried contacting don ho… but he has never replied. It is really shit how important information is never updated. Many people are willing to help out but none of them has access to anything utility this site…

1, tried to register, but not sure success or failed
2, login always failed,
3, no way to reset the password

Did you test it before?

Thanks for your reply. I thought that it’s not easy to implement this feature; I thought of sending this post after I’ve installed several plugins (mostly old) and Notepad++ crashed the next time I launched it and I couldn’t figure out which plugin caused the crash. though I solved the problem later.

@Nick-C Because this post is from over a year ago when 64-bit notepad++ was not even available. Check out this post from 6 days ago.

About ComparePlugin:

The “unofficial” 1.5.6.8 is actually not that unofficial but is rather a development version that is fully functional and is available in x86 and x64 variant. I’ll soon release it “officially” as version 2.0.0.0 but before that there are a few more issues I’d like to fix.
You can get the current development version from https://github.com/jsleroy/compare-plugin
through the AppVeyor build https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jsleroy/compare-plugin/history
The library DLLs for the corresponding variant (x86 or x64) can be found here https://github.com/jsleroy/compare-plugin/tree/master/libs.

BR

Resolved.

I’ve tested the Compare Plugin Version 1.5.6.8 and the problem has been resolved. Works like a charm.

Thanks All for the support.

Hello Erik van der Vlugt

You can easily simulate this functionality, by an appropriate regular expression :-))

Two possibilities :

If you want to select from cursor location till the next character, word, string or even regular expression matched, INcluded, just put the regex (?s).+?, before your search

If you want to select from cursor location till the next character, word, string or even regular expression matched, EXcluded, just put the regex (?s).+?(?=, before your search and end this regex with a closing round bracket !

Moreover :

If your search is case insensitive, use, at the beginning, the in-line modifier (?si)

If your search is case sensitive, use, at the beginning, the in-line modifier (?s-i)

If your search looks for a whole word, only, add the \b syntax, just after your search

So, let’s consider the contents of the N++ license.txt

Move back at the very beginning of your file ( CTRL + Origin )

Open the Find dialog ( CTRL + F )

Select the Regular expression search mode

Then, for instance :

The regex (?si).+?License would match from cursor location, till the string License, included, whatever its case ( 15 matches )

The regex (?s-i).+?(?=License) would match from cursor location, till the exact string License, excluded ( 6 matches )

The regex (?si).+?License\b would match from cursor location, till the word License, included, whatever its case ( 10 matches )

The regex (?s-i).+?(?=License\b) would match from cursor location, till the exact word License, excluded ( 5 matches )

Of course, you regex can, also, be a regular expression, itself ! For instance, the regex ?si).+?Th[eo]se would match from cursor location till the word those or these, included, whatever its case !

Notes :

The (?s) modifier forces the regex engine to consider that the dot meta-character can match, absolutely, any character ( standard and EOL characters ). So the regex .+ can matches any non-null range of characters, even located on several lines.

The question mark ?, placed after the syntax .+ ensures that the shortest range, between the cursor location and your own search expression, will be selected !

The syntax (?=.....) is a positive look-ahead assertion. At cursor position, that condition must be true in order to valid the overall match, although this condition is NOT a part of the final regex to match !

IMPORTANT :

For keeping this Find and Select behaviour, just close the Find dialog, with the ESC key, and go on, hitting the F3 key, for matching the other occurrences !

The very nice thing is that you just select the previous range(s), if you hit the SHIFT + F3 shortcut !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Joseph-Fisher
Natively, I don’t think so and I’m not aware that there is a plugin available
which might do this. Npp is not really a word processor.
In theory, a python or lua script might be able to do what you want but therefore
we would need more information what exactly is needed and what is provided.

Cheers
Claudia

@Werner-Vogt

maybe you encountered the same issue?

Cheers
Claudia

@Franco-Stellari Last time I checked I only had the double new 1 file problem when Autosave is enabled.
I’ll try the TakeNotes plugin, sounds what I needed for a long time. Thanks

Regarding the deactivation: If you use the installer, NPP deems your plugin as not stable (and says so) and will move it to the disabled folder. Sad but true.