User defined language not colour keywods and numbers

waroftitans remote

Hi.

I tried to create an user defined language highlights, and for some reason, the colors didn’t show up. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the program. I have the v8.7.9 (64bit) version of notepad++
I checked out the global override and its not forced to rewrite the style.
Here an image showed how I configured it.

Thanks for any help.

Edit: here is the debug info:

Notepad++ v8.7.9   (64-bit)
Build time : Mar 26 2025 - 03:20:28
Scintilla/Lexilla included : 5.5.5/5.4.3
Boost Regex included : 1_85
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\change.log" 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
Placeholders : OFF
Scintilla Rendering Mode : SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITE (1)
Multi-instance Mode : monoInst
File Status Auto-Detection : cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro N (64-bit)
OS Version : 22H2
OS Build : 19045.4529
Current ANSI codepage : 1250
Plugins : 
    mimeTools (3.1)
    NppConverter (4.6)
    NppExport (0.4)

PeterJones

@waroftitans-remote ,

Two things:

Make sure the lower-left on status bar says it’s UserDefinedFile - playground gui – if you create your UDL after naming the file, Notepad++ doesn’t notice the UDL’s ext.: pgui so doesn’t automatically pick that UDL this time. If you save, close the file, and re-open, it will auto-detect it as belonging to that UDL.

the , immediately next to the keyword interferes – for now. If you go to Operators & Delimiters and add the comma to the Operators 1 list, then Notepad++ knows that the , is an operator and not part of a keyword, and then is able to recognize widget and colour as keywords in two different categories:

waroftitans remote

@PeterJones
Thanks for your reply.
Adding the comma to the operators solved the problem.

Thank you.