Don't treat parenthesis as codeblocks start/end
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Hi guys,
I store some of my files containing passwords and things in cpp files created with np++.
I use cpp because the formatting is fine for my use case and taste, but i could use another language.
I’d like to know if there’s a way to NOT treat parenthesis (for example) as language functions but as simple symbols like letters and so on.
I know i could create my own “user defined language” but its pretty cryptic to me, and cpp is fine, so i would just need to edit the existing cpp language if possible, or something like that…Thanks and cheers
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Without editing the source code and compiling your own copy of Notepad++ and the libraries it ships with, you are not able to change the logic of the built-in languages like C++. It would be a lot easier to create a User Defined Language (UDL) than it would be to modify the logic for C++.
I would suggest trying to learn the UDL. You don’t tell us anything about your pseudo-language for your “passwords and things” (whether there are “keywords” you want to have highlighted, whether you use braces for nesting, and that sort of thing), so it’s hard to give you any hints. But the Language > User Defined Language > Define Your Language has a link to its documentation in the dialog box / panel, and that documentation is pretty newbie-friendly, IMO.
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edt: “don’t treat parentheses as codeblocks start/end” => do you mean()(which are generally called parentheses) or{}(which are often called curly braces or just braces). If you don’t want curly braces to be interpreted as blocks for indentation/folding, then the CPP lexer really isn’t the best choice for you. I really think you need to show us some example text (use the</>in the forum to mark that text as plain text), then paste in a screenshot of the text as highlighted by the lexer, and maybe explain which elements of the highlighting you like, and which you don’t. Because if all you have is a list of keywords that you want highlighted, then the UDL is dead simple: just go to the keywords tab, type those keywords, assign a color in the Style button, and maybe put a default extension for your so that a file with that extension will always use your UDL.
