Use a custom language definition to mark an entire line if it contains an operator
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I have a situation where I need to mark any line that contains a particular operator (in this case “@”). The operator may not necessarily appear at the start of the line, but I want to highlight the entire line nonetheless.
For example I would like to be able to mark the whole line below. I can get it to mark from the “@” to the end of the line, but don’t know how to pick up the words before the operator.
in a@Lush Forest
Thanks in advance!
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open find dialog, goto mark tab and put the following into find what:
(?-s).*@.*
check regular expression and press mark all. -
Thanks for the quick response!
That works once, but won’t work for new text entries that meet the criteria. Mark was probably a bad choice. “Custom format” would be more correct.
I have created a User Defined Language definition, which has worked well for most of my needs. This is the only one that is giving me a bit of a headache.
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actually the title says it, my bad, sorry.
No, I don’t think you can do this with udl.
What you can do is using a scripting language in combination with your udl
like described here. -
@mvancleave99
I have to add that this solution, using pythonscript in combination with udl, works only if
you use a 64 bit npp version < 7.x or a 32bit version of npp. -
Where does the trouble lie with PS and N++ >7.x and 64 bits? To make it work fully, does it require a PS code change, a N++ code change, or both? (If you know)
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a PS code change is needed for the callbacks as scintilla >=7.x introduced a different
notification structure, like int fields, formely 32bit, became int_ptr now 64bit on 64bit OS
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No worries! People (especially newbies) never post their actual question. Instead they post what they think their question is, so your original answer was quite reasonable. :-)
Yeah. I think I’ll live with what is a minor anomaly for me. The scripting solution will be above my head … ;-)
