How to get it to read .ss files as html?

Nika Rudolf

I tried deleting ss extention from scheme in the langs.model file and adding ss to HTML in Style Configurator, but it still reads .ss files as scheme files.

guy038

Hello @nika-rudolf and All,

Not very difficult, indeed ! But, first, we must identify where the Configuration files, of your N++ configuration, are ! So, choose, in N++, the menu option > ? > Debug info… :

If the Local Conf mode line is set to ON, you have a local N++ configuration => You probably got Notepad++ via a .zip or .7z archive and your configration files should be in the N++ installation folder, along with the executable file notepad++.exe
If the Local Conf mode line is set to OFF, you probably got Notepad++ with the installer and your configuration files should be :
- In the %AppData%\Roaming\Notepad++ folder, if your system is a W7, W8 or W10 machine
- In the %AppData%\Notepad++ folder, if your system is a XP, or Vista machine

IMPORTANT : We’re going to modify two configuration files : langs.xml and stylers.xml. So :

In Notepad++, close, first, all your opened .ss files. Then, choose the menu option File > Empty Recent Files List, in order to delete any reference to the .ss files, in the session.xml configuration file !
Now, close any instance of N++ and BACKUP your active files langs.xml and stylers.xml as, for instance, langs.bak and stylers.bak ( One never knows !! )
To edit the langs.xml and stylers.xml files, you must NOT use Notepad++ and use, exclusively, MS Notepad or MS wordpad or any other text editor !!

Then :

Open the langs.xml file and change the line :

    <Language name="scheme" ext="scm smd ss" commentLine=";">

into :

    <Language name="scheme" ext="scm smd" commentLine=";">

Save the changes and exit the langs.xml file. Now, open the stylers.xml file and change the line :

    <LexerType name="html" desc="HTML" ext="">

into :

    <LexerType name="html" desc="HTML" ext="ss">

Save the changes and exit the stylers.xml file

Finally, open Notepad++ and load any .ss file => It should be opened, automatically, with the HTML language :-D

Best Regards,

guy038

Nika Rudolf

Thank you so much, I did it and it works fine!