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    • mathlete2M
      mathlete2 @DomOBU
      last edited by

      @DomOBU yes, that seems to match the content that @PeterJones already posted. Hopefully, our corresponding answers are sufficient.

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      • DomOBUD
        DomOBU @mathlete2
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        @mathlete2

        Thank you for your time.
        This problem is not fundamental, I will live with it without any problem:
        NPP CSS.PNG

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        • mathlete2M
          mathlete2 @DomOBU
          last edited by

          @DomOBU I just noticed that, in your latest screenshot, you removed the space that I mentioned, but the brace highlighting is still mismatched. Looking more closely at my setup, I can see that removing (and even re-adding) that space is only a temporary solution to the mismatch issue - it returns as soon as you click on another line. I could have sworn this wasn’t happening before, but evidently not…

          Looking more closely at the code structure, it seems that braces cannot be nested within the & > a group, at least not in the manner that you’ve done here. Further to my original comment about &:focus { looking like it’s commented out: it looks as though there’s some sort of syntax error on the previous line that’s preventing the nested braces (or, perhaps more accurately, the next & statement) from processing as expected. When you run/use this code, does it actually work as expected? If it does, then this is probably a NP++ bug.

          FWIW, this vaguely reminds me of a similar issue I encountered in batch scripts, where a closing parenthesis from within an Echo call was being applied unexpectedly. The difference there was that NP++ was actually matching the parentheses the way I would expect it to - the mismatch wasn’t occurring until the script was actually run. The solution was to escape each ) in the Echo call with ^. However, if the code here is valid, I don’t think that would help with the NP++ highlighting.

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          • mpheathM
            mpheath @DomOBU
            last edited by mpheath

            @DomOBU Did you setup any CSS properties like mentioned at this other topic ?

            Just tested this code in PythonScript’s startup.py:

            editor.setProperty('lexer.css.less.language', 1)
            notepad.callback(lambda _: editor.setProperty('lexer.css.less.language', 1), [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED])
            

            css_nest.png

            I would not know of side-effects of enabling LESS though it does appear to allow nesting.

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            • DomOBUD
              DomOBU
              last edited by

              @mathlete2 @mpheath

              Thank you very much for your answers.

              The source code of the example is from MDN:
              “https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Nesting_selector#using_in_nested_css_styles”
              The source code runs correctly with Firefox & Edge.

              I copied the source code into the web site “https://lesscss.org/” (thanks to @mpheath, I didn’t know about this web site); this is the result:
              Less Capture.PNG

              I copied the source code into the web site “https://phcode.dev/” (my brain is getting old, I hadn’t thought of testing the source code into this web site); this is the result:
              phcode Capture.PNG

              Both results are in line with expectations.
              PS: on this forum, it’s a shame that as soon as you question the way NPP works, you’re seen as questioning the quality of NPP.

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              • PeterJonesP
                PeterJones @DomOBU
                last edited by

                @DomOBU said in Display in NPP:

                PS: on this forum, it’s a shame that as soon as you question the way NPP works, you’re seen as questioning the quality of NPP.

                It’s a shame you think that. I see nothing in this conversation that indicates that people thought you were questioning the quality of NPP.

                I thought we were pretty clear: on the CSS & issue, you were completely right, but that nothing can be fixed in Notepad++ until the Lexilla library is fixed (and the Notepad++ developer doesn’t control the Lexilla library); for the brace matching, there does appear to be something weird (probably, again, in Lexilla… though whether it’s part of the same & issue, or whether it’s solely caused by the lexer not handling deep nesting properly is uncertain as of yet); for HTML lone-&, the advice, for your own safety, is to always encode the literal & character as & in HTML, and if you do, then you won’t notice that Lexilla chooses a strange style for a lonely &.

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                • mathlete2M
                  mathlete2 @mpheath
                  last edited by

                  @mpheath said in Display in NPP:

                  Just tested this code in PythonScript’s startup.py:

                  editor.setProperty(‘lexer.css.less.language’, 1)
                  notepad.callback(lambda _: editor.setProperty(‘lexer.css.less.language’, 1), [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED])

                  @DomOBU just to clarify this suggestion: if you open the Plugins menu, you will see something like this:

                  379a16d4-2c99-427e-8e55-9b1cffb38a73-image.png

                  Note that PythonScript is currently not listed there. To install this plugin (or any other for that matter), select Plugins Admin…. This will bring up a window similar to:

                  6415f194-a40f-4116-aabc-bb82e7db9551-image.png

                  Once you have the desired plugin selected, click Install (top right) and follow the prompts. When finished, PythonScript should appear in the Plugins menu; selecting it should launch something that you can run @mpheath 's code in, which should update your brace matching as desired.

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                  • DomOBUD
                    DomOBU @mathlete2
                    last edited by

                    @mathlete2

                    The installation of the PythonScript plugin doesn’t work.
                    I assume that Python needs to be installed on my laptop beforehand. I don’t have that configuration because I don’t use Python.

                    One last question. There are some basic words in CSS: selector, property and value. Why don’t these words appear in the CSS Style Configurator?

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @DomOBU
                      last edited by

                      @DomOBU said:

                      The installation of the PythonScript plugin doesn’t work.

                      “doesn’t work” without further detail doesn’t allow people to help you further with it.

                      I assume that Python needs to be installed on my laptop beforehand.

                      No.


                      You should have been directed to the FAQ.

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                      • mathlete2M
                        mathlete2 @DomOBU
                        last edited by

                        @DomOBU said in Display in NPP:

                        There are some basic words in CSS: selector, property and value. Why don’t these words appear in the CSS Style Configurator?

                        This sounds like a question for the developers, but it looks like a few other users have had similar/related issues with CSS syntax highlighting, even when the identifiers are listed. If these threads do not answer your question, feel free to start a new one.

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