"} else {" as a new section

[Bert Nieuwenampsen]

I’m building an if statement in PowerShell like this:

if (blabla) {

} else { 

}

If I do it like this, it does recognize different sections:

if (blabla) {

} 
else 
{ 

}

screenshot:

The problem is that Notepad++ sees it as one block, so I can’t collapse and expand the if and else separately.
Can I adjust this somewhere in Notepad++?

Regards,
Bert

[PeterJones]

@Bert-Nieuwenampsen said in "} else {" as a new section:

Can I adjust this somewhere in Notepad++?

Notepad++ uses the Lexilla IP by Scintilla for syntax highlighting and folding. Apparently, the PowerShell lexer has a property called fold.at.else, but Notepad++ doesn’t currently set that option. If Notepad++ were to set that true on PowerShell documents (by setting that property in setPowerShellLexer()), then it would allow folding at } else { for PowerShell.

So if someone (you) were to follow the instructions in our Feature Request FAQ, and make an official request, it could be turned on, or a preference could be added to allow the user to toggle it. Then, if the developer thought it was a good idea, it might eventually be added to Notepad++.

Until that happens, you could use the PythonScript plugin to toggle that setting:

vs

To be able to automatically do that, you could edit (or create) your user startup.py to include

from Npp import editor, notepad, LANGTYPE, NOTIFICATION
def cb_pwshFoldAtElse(args):
    if notepad.getCurrentLang() == LANGTYPE.POWERSHELL:
        editor.setProperty("fold.at.else", 1)
notepad.callback(cb_pwshFoldAtElse, [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED])

(For more on PythonScript and the user startup.py, and the need to set ATSTARTUP instead of LAZY for my instructions to work, see our FAQ: How to install and run a script in PythonScript)