@PeterJones said in Break a string by delete paired quote will unfold folded codes in some language highlight:

@byzod said in Break a string by delete paired quote will unfold folded codes in some language highlight:

What cause this difference?

Every built-in language references a specific Lexer, and each Lexer is coded separately (and often by different people).

And UDL is a separate lexer from every built-in language.

How can I improve the UDL to act like Javascript highlighting?

You cannot. The behavior of the folding for each language is compiled into the program, and cannot be affected by the end user.

You could, in theory, report the bug to the Notepad++ developer (see our FAQ on reporting bugs), but UDL bugs almost never get fixed, and there have been some long-standing ones reported years ago that are still open (and much more annoying that just unfolding a block when you type near the block). Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Glad to found out why though

btw I found a workaound fortunately: enable the auto pairs for () [] {} "" etc, then it won’t trigger this bug, mostly. Sometimes still bomb all codes out but it improves the experience a lot already

@Alex-Yuan-CA

In case you are trying to do any other possible text manipulation, searching, highlighting, etc, etc, or anything you can possibly think of doing to your text, please consult the Notepad++ online user manual, because your answer is probably found there.

@PeterJones yes that was it!
So indeed it was an easy one - you’d think I would have figured that out. Haha
Thank you for pointing me to the setting!

@PeterJones, thank you so much!

@Annie-Chuang ,

In addition to @Alan-Kilborn’s request, you can also go to ?-menu’s Debug Info, and paste that here.

Please also tell us the full path of the filename where you put the XML file – was it c:\users\___\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\functionList\XyzPdq.xml or c:\Program Files\Notepad++\functionList\XyzPdq.xml or somewhere else?

I referred to many documents

Unfortunately, you don’t tell us which ones, so we cannot know whether they were telling you the right thing, or not.

Here are some reasonable documents to consult:

User Manual: Function List = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/function-list/#how-to-customize-function-list User Manual: Function List Config Files = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#function-list Including instructions on how to upgrade from a v7.9-or-earlier FunctionList (from before November 2020) to one that works with modern Notepad++ = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#upgrading-old-function-list-entries Community Forum FAQ: Function List Basics = https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19480/faq-function-list-basics

re-created the XML file and put it into FunctionList Folder

As per the User Manual, there are two files that need to be edited to add the FunctionList – you need to have the XML specific to your language, and you need to edit the functionList\overrideMap.xml – if you didn’t do the latter, then just creating the XML isn’t enough.

Also, you have to make sure it’s named correctly, and that you’ve got your User Defined Language (UDL) already set up and working, too.

plzz add koltin guys , i love notepad ++ everything i’m writing in it , pluzz doit :3

Nice. It’s progressing fast.

Now which will come first, https or authentication?

I have also ‘stumbled’ upon that behavior when working on Compare plugins.

@Coises said in Two buffer-activated notifications instead of just one:

The best way I have found to work around it is to try to write NPPN_BUFFERACTIVATED processing such that doing it repeatedly on a file that hasn’t changed does nothing, and does it quickly. That usually means tracking changes with SCN_MODIFIED and keeping a map that associates Scintilla document IDs, Notepad++ buffer IDs, and status information. It’s ugly.

@Coises , I would just add that back in the time when I analyzed that behavior I noticed that NPPN_BUFFERACTIVATED is send for the same file that hasn’t changed also when it is changed outside Notepad++ and it is reloaded in the editor. I actually currently use that to detect that the current file is changed outside and reloaded in Notepad++ to refresh the compare.

I agree with what Alan wrote:

@Alan-Kilborn said in Two buffer-activated notifications instead of just one:

But if the user is using e.g. a plugin that does a not-insignificant operation on buff-activated, and that operation is time-related to the size of the file, and the currently-active tab in the inactive view is absolutely huge and the above happens, the user can notice.

I would also add that it is not only the plugins processing of NPPN_BUFFERACTIVATED involved here but unfortunately also some Notepad++ internal functions.
For example let’s suppose we have opened two files in the first (main) view and one file in the second (sub) view. Now let’s assume one of the files in the first view is small and loads quickly and the second file is large xml for example and it is the currently active file in the view. Now if we switch to the second view and activate the Notepad++'s function list and then click on the small file’s tab in the first view then it seems the large file is first ‘activated’ in the view and the function list seems to be processing it before immediately switching to the small file. And that delay is noticeable by the user in that case even though plugins are not involved

@Coises

Maybe I just didn’t understand the meaning behind it.

So that’s right. :-)

It looks like I don’t need to do this kind of work that would benefit from a cloned view, or not often enough. In the cases where I need to jump to different places, I use bookmarks, but I understand that you’d rather have the other area in the second view if you need to do that repeatedly.

As for notifications, I’d have to look in my notes, which I don’t have access to at the moment, but from what I remember it was about both npp and scintilla notifications. I suspect this will be one of the issues that will be addressed when everything else is working and the plugin is officially released.