I do the text parsing and formatting in my plugin.

So you mean are actually writing a custom lexer? If so then you might want to look at some other lexers people have created and see how they are doing it. In general a lexer assigns a style number to each character and then that style number has color/font/underline/bold/etc associated with it.

I tried the UDL but couldn’t come up with a solution.

I’ve never use UDL so I can’t be of any help here. :)

Hello @Ericson-E.-Z.,

workaround would be to use CTRL+SHIFT+K
on a selected block of code.

Cheers
Claudia

Some things to keep in mind. ANSI is a subset of UTF-8. So if there are no UTF-8 characters then Notepad++ detects it as ANSI. You can force ANSI files to be UTF-8 by using Settings > Preferences > New Document > Encoding and select UTF-8 and apply it to opened files.

Also keep in mind some FTP clients transfer files in ASCII mode which translates the line endings automatically. I’m not sure if NppFTP has an option to change that (I rarely ever use it personally), if not then you probably want to submit a bug/feature directly to that project.

You could also try to manually control the style for a specific language as well. You would have to catch certain events such as NPPN_BUFFERACTIVATED and NPPN_LANGCHANGED . Any time a certain file was shown, you would manually call Scintilla messages such as SCI_STYLESETFORE etc for all the styles your plugin uses. It is not the “recommended” way but may be what you need. Note that you won’t be able to modify this style through the style configurator.

Unfortunately it doesn’t appear there is any way of catching this kind of event. And you are correct that it seems only NPPN_BUFFERACTIVATED is sent. I can see where this type of message would be useful to be notified when it is reloaded…so it might be a good idea to open a new issue on Github.

Assuming you’ve downloaded the zip version from here.

Everything from the ext_libs directory (within the zip file) needs to be copied to
either the notepad++ installation directory OR if you used the %APPDATA% configuration then it needs to be placed to the %APPDATA%\Notepad++ directory.

The same applies to the xmltools directory, which only has one file XMLTools.dll.
If you used %APPDATA% configuration, than copy it to %APPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins, if not using it, than copy it to the plugins directory under notepad++ installation directory.

If it still doesn’t work, may I ask you to post the debug->info (avaliable under ? menu)

Cheers
Claudia

EDIT I must be getting crazy, it showed up once i selected SHOW UNSTABLE plugins, but stability status said good, so i installed, removed, unticked the show UNSTABLE plugins, closed and reopened notepad++ and it was shoing fine in plugin manager, either im getting old or this was a bug in the plugin repository that I cannot seem to repeat lol, anyway, im ok now

Hi Medda,

I guess I understand it better now, thanks for clarification.
Unfortunattely your request can’t be easily solved as nppFTP is plugin
and project a builtin component, which means they can’t interact, well,
it isn’t intended that both communicate with each other.

That files get loaded automatically, when connection to ftp server has been
established, needs to be a function from nppFTP plugin, therefore nppFTP
author needs to implement this.

In regards to the project function to reload, as said, no communication with nppFTP plugin.

Cheers
Claudia

Hi Claudia,

You probably read the name of a commit made for the version 1.2.1 of 3P!
I’m using the latest version of the awesome OLV ;)

Hello crypto-rsa,

Thanks for your quick reply ! Indeed, on my configuration, I have all versions of .NET, till the 3.5 version and even Microsoft .NET Framework 4 client Profile ! But nothing about NET 4.5 :-( Too bad, indeed !

Of course, I do know that I should switch to newer Windows OS. But I’ve, so often, heard about problems of privileges and permissions for running software or opening files, with W7, and upper versions, that I quite pleased with my rustic, but neat Win XP configuration !!

Anyway, I’ll try your plugin, on my W7 laptop, at work !

Cheers,

guy038

Hello @Craig-Johnston,

it is just a matter of maintaining ther related api file,
which can be found in …\plugins\APIs\perl.xml.
Take php.xml as example on what needs to be done.

Cheers
Claudia

Ah, okay, I must have not really thought about the OP’s last sentence!

Hello @Johannes-Fleck,

that is strange, on my very very very old laptop
Intel Pentium M 1,5 Ghz 1GB RAM it takes
1,6 seconds to start npp with xml tools.

Do you know sysinternals process monitor?
Run it, define notepad++.exe as filter, start npp and you should see
what is causing the issue.

Cheers
Claudia

updated and the problem solved. thanks…