How to enable auto-complete for Fortran

Sam Ellis

I am trying to get auto-complete working for Fortran. For my files I have selected language ‘Fortran (free form)’ and assume I simply create an XML file in plugins\APIs but don’t know what it’s name should be. I have tried ‘Fortran (free form).xml’ with tag ‘<AutoComplete language=“Fortran (free form)”>’ in it but it does not work.

guy038

Hello, @sam-ellis, and All,

First of all, it’s necessary to determine the right localization of your active \plugins\APIs folder. Depending on your initial N++ installation ( with the installer OR from a ZIP or 7Z archive ), the active configuration files should be found :
- In the same folder as Notepad++ .exe, as well as the zero-length file doLocalConf.xml, in case of a local installation of N++
- And, in case of an usual installation of N++, with the installer :
  - In the folder %AppData%\Roaming\Notepad++, for a W7, W8 or W10 configuration
  - In the folder %AppData%\Notepad++, for a XP or Vista configuration
Secondly, as you would like to use the Fortran (free form) language, just create a fortran.xml file, in the …\plugins\APIs folder
Finally, insert all your KeyWords in the fortran.xml file
Stop and restart N++
Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N )
Select the option Language > F > Fortran (free form)

That’s it !

As for me, I did a test with the fortran.xml file, below :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>
<NotepadPlus>
	<AutoComplete>
		<Environment ignoreCase="no" />
		<KeyWord name="ABSOLUTE" />
		<KeyWord name="Blah_bla" />
		<KeyWord name="FOR" />
		<KeyWord name="Guy" />
		<KeyWord name="PAPA" />
		<KeyWord name="border" />
		<KeyWord name="func" />
		<KeyWord name="tesT" />
	</AutoComplete>
</NotepadPlus>

It works, without any problem :-))

Remarks :

Note that, if your KeyWords are all lowercase, the line, below, shouldn’t be necessary

		<Environment ignoreCase="no" />

Besides, the complete syntax of this tag is, for instance :

		<Environment ignoreCase="no" startFunc="(" stopFunc=")" paramSeparator="," terminal=";" additionalWordChar=".:$#"/>

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

For people who prefers the Fortran (fixed form) language, the name of the APIs .xml file, must be fortran77.xml !

Sam Ellis

Thanks Guy. Now working. But did not appear to work on a Fortran file that was already open but worked when I closed the file and reopened it!?