Managing the User Languages tool
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I’m having difficulty managing the User Defined Language tool. After working on “Styling” for a while I get a long list of failed attempts. It would be nice if I could simply save a new version over the previous version, but the tool doesn’t permit saving over the existing file. So I have to create a new version, and the list grows longer until it’s difficult to manage. Is there an easy way to do this? Like being able to tag & delete all the unwanted old versions at one time?
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@sagradamoly-stack said in Managing the User Languages tolol:
It would be nice if I could simply save a new version over the previous version, but the tool doesn’t permit saving over the existing file.
That’s a misunderstanding. Notepad++ immediately updates its internal copy of a UDL as soon as you make the changes (even without closing the dialog). Then, when you exit Notepad++, it saves all its updated config files, including your updated UDL.
You do not need to save as a new UDL and then later rename to make changes. It just automatically updates the UDL under the existing name when you make changes. (See user manual: UDL Naming and Saving at
https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-defined-language-system/#naming-and-saving)
