JavaScript Function List not working

Jason Stine

Hi, I have the latest version of Notepad++ installed (7.3.2) and I can’t get the function list to display anything when I edit my .js files. I checked the functionList.xml file, and there’s code there for JavaScript, so why doesn’t it work? This is what’s in my functionList.xml file:

Line 29: L_COFFEESCRIPT = 56 | L_JAVASCRIPT = 58 | L_PS = 35 | L_XML = 9

Line 38: 3 = L_CPP | 19 = L_JS | 35 = L_PS | 51 = L_GUI4CLI

Line 45: 10 = L_MAKEFILE | 26 = L_BASH | 42 = L_ADA | 58 = L_JAVASCRIPT

Line 1165:

		<parser
			displayName="JavaScript"
			id         ="javascript_function"
			commentExpr="(?s:/\*.*?\*/)|(?m-s://.*?$)"
		>
			<function
				mainExpr="((^|\s+|[;\}\.])([A-Za-z_]\w*\.)*[A-Za-z_]\w*\s*[=:]|^|[\s;\}]+)\s*function(\s+[A-Za-z_]?\w*\([^\)\(]*\)|\([^\)\(]*\))[\n\s]*\{"
			>
				<functionName>
					<nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_]\w*\s*[=:]|[A-Za-z_]?\w*\s*\(" />
					<nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_]?\w*" />
				</functionName>
				<className>
					<nameExpr expr="([A-Za-z_]\w*\.)*[A-Za-z_]\w*\." />
					<nameExpr expr="([A-Za-z_]\w*\.)*[A-Za-z_]\w*" />
				</className>
			</function>
		</parser>

Any ideas?

MAPJe71

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Jason Stine

Hi thanks for replying to my question! I tried changing the language IDs (58 and 19), trying both functionList.xml files in the two different directories mentioned… but still no list is appearing! What would you suggest I try next?

t12122013 Fink

Hi
I found that javascript function list does not work when there is a comment between the function (parameter list) and the opening curly bracket { of the function body.
My solution is to remove the search for curly bracket {.
In addition I added the construct d = new Function(“parameter1”,“parameter2”,“function body”).
I tried a lot of things, changing the commentExpr did not help. I frequently do have comments between the function header and the opening curly bracket of the function body.

It concerns the mainExpr

mainExpr=“((^|\s+|[;}.])([A-Za-z_]\w*.)[A-Za-z_]\w\s*[=:]|^|[\s;}]+)\s*(?:new\s*)?function(\s+[A-Za-z_]?\w*\s*([^)(])|([^)(]))”

(please excuse my formatting, and for tail-posting. I want to post my findings but I’m not fluent).