u are right I don’t remember that when i use “if” in .lua i need to “end” it

and it don’t get valid (for .lua) ending because it’s structure for game engine (in .txt)
so yee if will fold in wrong way _______

thanks :))

If I take this minimal example, everything folds correctly:

western = {
    effect = {
        iffin = {
            here = there
        }
    }

    ai_will_do = {  
        factor = 1  
    }
}

but if I change the one line to if instead of iffin,

western = {
    effect = {
        if = {
            here = there
        }
    }

    ai_will_do = {  
        factor = 1  
    }
}

then it doesn’t fold correctly. But I see that it starts another fold-block on the if – so I guessed (not knowing Lua) that if-syntax has a special ending in Lua. Finding https://www.lua.org/pil/4.3.1.html seems to confirm that, so when I try:

western = {
    effect = {
        if = {
            here = there
        }
        end
    }

    ai_will_do = {  
        factor = 1  
    }
}

… then it goes back to folding as expected.

Are you sure that if = { ... } is a valid Lua construct? Once again, I don’t know Lua, so it may be okay. If it is not okay, then the Lua lexer is properly interpreting that there should be another fold block you’ve not closed.

If it is valid, then it looks like it is a bug. Unfortunately, that bug would be in the lua lexer in the Scintilla component that Notepad++ uses. NPP doesn’t often update it’s Scintilla component: Scintilla is a separate project, at v4.1.3↗, whereas it appears that the last time NPP updated Scintilla was to v3.56 back in June 2015↗ – so you’d have to go find out whether or not Scintilla has already fixed that bug: if they have, you’d have to lobby↗ for NPP to update to a modern Scintilla, or to at least patch the NPP copy of LuxLua.cxx. If that bug does still exist in Scintilla, then you would have to write a bug report for Scintilla (checking first whether the report already exists), then wait for it to get fixed there, then lobby NPP for the update or patch.

Hopefully, it really is a “little” problem for you. Or even better, you could come up with a better name than if for that element of the structure you showed.