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    • venkyV
      venky @PeterJones
      last edited by

      @PeterJones Thank you. I did do that to begin with but it still does not work. When I open a text file, the UDL file is selected automatically under Language menu but the keyword highlighting is not happening. to note I am using DarkMode and DarkModeDefault theme.

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @venky
        last edited by

        @venky

        Probably going to need more information about exactly what you’re attempting to do. Dark mode wouldn’t have anything to do with it.

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        • venkyV
          venky @Alan Kilborn
          last edited by

          @Alan-Kilborn See below for the UDL XML file I have. Maybe there is something wrong in this file?

          <?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8” ?>
          <NotepadPlus>
          <UserLang name=“Text” ext=“txt” udlVersion=“2.1”>
          <Settings>
          <Global caseIgnored=“yes” allowFoldOfComments=“no” foldCompact=“no” forcePureLC=“0” decimalSeparator=“0” />
          <Prefix Keywords1=“no” Keywords2=“no” Keywords3=“no” Keywords4=“no” Keywords5=“no” Keywords6=“no” Keywords7=“no” Keywords8=“no” />
          </Settings>
          <KeywordLists>
          <Keywords name=“Comments”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Numbers, prefix1”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Numbers, prefix2”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Numbers, extras1”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Numbers, extras2”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Numbers, suffix1”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Numbers, suffix2”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Numbers, range”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Operators1”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Operators2”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in code1, open”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in code1, middle”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in code1, close”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in code2, open”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in code2, middle”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in code2, close”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in comment, open”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in comment, middle”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Folders in comment, close”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Keywords1”>Warning Error Failure</Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Keywords2”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Keywords3”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Keywords4”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Keywords5”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Keywords6”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Keywords7”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Keywords8”></Keywords>
          <Keywords name=“Delimiters”></Keywords>
          </KeywordLists>
          <Styles>
          <WordsStyle name=“DEFAULT” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“COMMENTS” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“LINE COMMENTS” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“NUMBERS” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“KEYWORDS1” fgColor=“FFFFFF” bgColor=“008040” fontStyle=“5” fontSize=“18” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“KEYWORDS2” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“KEYWORDS3” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“KEYWORDS4” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“KEYWORDS5” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“KEYWORDS6” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“KEYWORDS7” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“KEYWORDS8” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“OPERATORS” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“FOLDER IN CODE1” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“FOLDER IN CODE2” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“FOLDER IN COMMENT” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“DELIMITERS1” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“DELIMITERS2” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“DELIMITERS3” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“DELIMITERS4” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“DELIMITERS5” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“DELIMITERS6” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“DELIMITERS7” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          <WordsStyle name=“DELIMITERS8” fgColor=“000000” bgColor=“FFFFFF” fontStyle=“0” nesting=“0” />
          </Styles>
          </UserLang>
          </NotepadPlus>

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          • EkopalypseE
            Ekopalypse @venky
            last edited by

            @venky

            There is a limit if they are larger than 200 MB they will not be styled. Could this be your problem too?
            Issue has been opened here.

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            • PeterJonesP
              PeterJones @venky
              last edited by

              @venky ,

              There is nothing wrong with your UDL. When I apply that UDL to a file, I see:
              70b573b0-cbee-4529-9798-44f5ee8512bc-image.png

              or, in Dark Mode:
              c3615867-4d71-4d95-9745-68fd0d25a8e9-image.png

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              • venkyV
                venky @PeterJones
                last edited by

                @PeterJones Can you tell me how (steps) you applied the UDL? Thanks.

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                • PeterJonesP
                  PeterJones @venky
                  last edited by PeterJones

                  @venky ,

                  You claim that “the UDL file is selected automatically under Language menu”, so according to your claim, it should be applied properly.

                  My steps were:

                  1. Copy your UDL text
                  2. Paste into a new file
                  3. Save As > %AppData%\Notepad++\userDefineLangs\TextUDL.xml
                  4. File > Exit
                  5. Run Notepad++
                  6. Open text file (must have .txt extension)
                    or
                    File > New then File > Save As > c:\path\to\blah.txt
                  7. Type file as
                    Warning
blah
Error
blah
Failure
blah
                  8. It’s highlighted

                  If it’s not working for you, please go to the ? menu, run Debug Info, click on the underlined text, and paste into your reply. In your reply, also show a screenshot with enough of the Status Bar to show us the selected language on the lower-left of the status bar (like my screenshot above).

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                  • venkyV
                    venky @PeterJones
                    last edited by

                    @PeterJones Please see below. I put replaced user profile name with … in the path below.

                    I also tried this with portable version and it did not work.

                    Notepad++ v8.4.4 (64-bit)
                    Build time : Jul 15 2022 - 17:54:42
                    Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                    Command Line :
                    Admin mode : OFF
                    Local Conf mode : OFF
                    Cloud Config : C:\Users…\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++
                    OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
                    OS Version : 21H2
                    OS Build : 19044.1889
                    Current ANSI codepage : 1252
                    Plugins : none

                    npp issue.jpg

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                    • PeterJonesP
                      PeterJones @venky
                      last edited by

                      @venky said in keyword highlighting in text file:

                      I also tried this with portable version and it did not work.

                      I do not know what you are doing differently than I am.

                      I just started again from scratch:

                      1. Unzip Notepad++ portable to C:\usr\local\apps\npp\udl
                      2. Copy C:\usr\local\apps\npp\udl\userDefineLangs\markdown._preinstalled.udl.xml to C:\usr\local\apps\npp\udl\userDefineLangs\TextUDL.xml
                      3. Use MS notepad.exe to paste the exact UDL definition that you have above into TextUDL.xml and save/exit
                      4. Create an emtpy file C:\usr\local\apps\npp\udl\blah.txt
                      5. Drag blah.txt on top of notepad++.exe in that directory to run the portable instance with that blah.txt.
                      6. Type (or paste) the six lines of the file.

                      1af9de1c-a74c-4db4-9518-cbb7ca62629c-image.png

                      Notepad++ v8.4.4   (64-bit)
Build time : Jul 15 2022 - 17:54:42
Path : C:\usr\local\apps\npp\udl\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit) 
OS Version : 20H2
OS Build : 19042.1889
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : 
    mimeTools (2.8)
    NppConverter (4.4)
    NppExport (0.4)
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                      • Alan KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
                        last edited by Alan Kilborn

                        @PeterJones

                        I don’t want to muddy the waters, but when I follow the instructions, I just see Normal text file on the status bar after pulling in blah.txt. And, you didn’t show yours, but when I go to the UDL section of the Languages menu I don’t see anything that resembles “TextUDL” (and although I’m no expert on UDL, I expected to).

                        1131d953-08da-4f73-86ac-537da3b33a17-image.png

                        And I didn’t get any coloring on Warning, Error, etc.

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                        • PeterJonesP
                          PeterJones @Alan Kilborn
                          last edited by

                          @Alan-Kilborn ,

                          Yours is just behaving like you didn’t restart Notepad++ after putting the UDL definition in the userDefineLangs directory. (Or you used the wrong userDefineLangs directory)

                          Oh, actually, no, there was an implied step 3.5 which I forgot to mention: in notepad.exe, replace the “smart quotes” with real ASCII " quotes.

                          (I am working on a video screenshot , showing the full sequence… but having upload problems – new laptop, so my quick animation->forum process needs to be rebuilt.)

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
                            last edited by Alan Kilborn

                            @PeterJones said in keyword highlighting in text file:

                            implied step 3.5 which I forgot to mention: in notepad.exe, replace the “smart quotes” with real ASCII " quotes

                            If it turns out the entire problem is the OP not pasting the data into a code block, I’m going to feel like my time was wasted. :-(

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                            • PeterJonesP
                              PeterJones @Alan Kilborn
                              last edited by PeterJones

                              @Alan-Kilborn said in keyword highlighting in text file:

                              @PeterJones said in keyword highlighting in text file:

                              implied step 3.5 which I forgot to mention: in notepad.exe, replace the “smart quotes” with real ASCII " quotes

                              If it turns out the entire problem is the OP not pasting the data into a code block, I’m going to feel like my time was wasted. :-(

                              I hope that’s not all, too… I would have assumed that the OP would have just copied his UDL file over to the portable he tried, not just do a copy/paste from the forum. And since the OP status bar shows the TextUDL file type, obviously that part is working.

                              For @venky , here is a recording of the procedure I took, from unzipping through seeing the highlighting.

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                              • Alan KilbornA
                                Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
                                last edited by

                                @PeterJones

                                OK, with the changeover from smart-quotes, all working for me as well:

                                7c804559-7a97-448c-90e3-2b7d1a027033-image.png

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                                • PeterJonesP
                                  PeterJones @PeterJones
                                  last edited by

                                  The other option, of course, is for @venky to start from scratch with a new UDL. Then build it up slowly, so that every piece is known working.

                                  Here, I start with blah.txt, with the UDL editor docked. I switch to the default User Defined Language (so it really starts from scratch), Create New, give it a name (Second), and switch the active language for just this file to Second.

                                  Then I go into keywords, use lowercase warning and give it a color, to show that it’s case sensitive. (I forgot while recording this second video that the screenshot above already showed the Warning case matched what was in the pasted UDL definition)

                                  I go into the second keywords box with capitalized Warning, assign it a color, and watch the color change in the editor.

                                  If a user is having trouble getting a UDL to work, I recommend starting from scratch, and building it up slowly, because then you can see each individual step work.

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