JS syntax highlighting in ASP?

John Doge

Hello,
Is there a way to highlight server-side JS in .asp (ASP Classic) files? Given the testcase:

<%@ LANGUAGE="JScript" %>
<%
	var x = 1;
%>
<script>
	var x = 1;
</script>

The expected result would be similar highlighting in both var lines, maybe with different background color for bonus points. However only client-side <script> block is highlighted according to JS rules.
Interestingly, changing LANGUAGE from JScript to anything else produces VB highlighting, meaning it is taken into account, so maybe I’m just doing something wrong here?

Claudia Frank

@John-Doge
when using JScript Language I do get both var colored.

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Cheers
Claudia

John Doge

Thanks Claudia! This is strange however, because I have various NP++ versions up to 7.0 on multiple machines and haven’t seen it working anywhere.
Could you please clarify:
Did you have the file saved as .asp?
Did you change language via NP++ menu to anything other than ASP or HTML?

As a side note, highlighting works with LANGUAGE="PHP" as well as VBScript, so it seems that only JScript is broken for me.
Also, everything works as expected in SciTE.

Claudia Frank

John,

yes, I selected JavaScript from the language menu, NOT asp or html.
If Scite works, then I assume it has to do with the different scintilla versions.
Npp does not use the latest scintilla library.

Cheers
Claudia

John Doge

Ah, that’s not how it’s supposed to work. HTML parser should detect language of embedded script blocks on its own without user changing the top-level language, because there are HTML/ASP tags that also need their own highlighting.
Thanks for the heads up, I think I’ve found the diff between np++ and scintilla code that’s responsible. I should probably take it to github from here.