Mathematica UDL

Fraw Farewell · Nov 5, 2019, 4:11 AM

Hi, I just started using NPP for Mathematica and I wonder where I can find a UDL for it that supposedly exists (see mentions here and here ). I can’t find it anywhere else except on the defunct wiki and the sourceforge project that’s also down. Anyone know where I can find it or another Mathematica UDL? Thanks.

PeterJones · Nov 5, 2019, 5:30 PM

Using wayback machine to follow links and find old versions of files that no longer exist, I was able to dig up the mma.udl.xml from 2013, which I uploaded to pastebin . No idea if that matches what was linked in 2016, but it’s a starting place.

Unlike was mentioned in 2016, you don’t have to use the “import” button anymore; you can just save mma.udl.xml into your %AppData%\Notepad++\userDefineLangs folder, and reload Notepad++.

PeterJones · Nov 5, 2019, 5:34 PM

Nope, sorry, there’s an error in the file somewhere, so it won’t load/import… let’s see if I can figure out how to clean it up.

PeterJones · Nov 5, 2019, 9:03 PM

I don’t know exactly what was wrong with the original: well, it included comments, and accidentally included the markdown ``` … so those weren’t valid. But even after I did that, it was doing strange things, where the UDL would load, but it would color the text black-on-black and worse.

I started over from scratch, and then started copying the keyword lists, etc. I thought maybe it was because there were ~19000 bytes in each of the three main keyword lists from the original; I split it into 5 keyword lists, with ~12000 bytes in each. That modified mma.udl.xml seems to work – it properly loads, and applies syntax-colors to a Mathematica file I downloaded (though I don’t know if it’s a reasonable color scheme).

Mathematica has a lot of keywords/functions!

(Also, I am not sure why the original kept each of :, ::, and # as separate keyword categories… I tried looking up what those do in mathematica… and they do different things, but don’t seem any more wildly different than other operators from each other. I kept them separate in mine as well, though if they could be combined with something else, I could have gotten down to fewer words per keyword category. )

guy038 · Nov 5, 2019, 9:18 PM

Hello, @fraw-farewell, @peterjones,

Here is, below, the modified version of the UDL file for Mathematica. I simply rewrote all terms with the exact case, as it is, for instance, in the userDefinedLang-markdown.default.modern.xml UDL file for MardDown language !

After starting N++, you should see the Mathematica language, at the end of the drop-down list, when clicking on Language

IMPORTANT :

In order to keep my post’s size under 16384 bytes, I simply omit all the keywords in Keywords1, Keywords2 and Keywords3 sections. Of course, just re-paste these 3 keywords list, respectively ;-))

<!-- END WAYBACK TOOLBAR INSERT -->
<NotepadPlus>
    <UserLang name="Mathematica" ext="m nb" udlVersion="2.1">
        <Settings>
            <Global caseIgnored="no" allowFoldOfComments="no" foldCompact="no" forcePureLC="0" decimalSeparator="0"/>
            <Prefix Keywords1="no" Keywords2="no" Keywords3="no" Keywords4="yes" Keywords5="no" Keywords6="yes" Keywords7="no" Keywords8="no"/>
        </Settings>
        <KeywordLists>
            <Keywords name="Comments"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, prefix1"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, prefix2"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, extras1"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, extras2"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, suffix1"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, suffix2"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Numbers, range"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Operators1">&amp; _ , := = [ ] { } ( ) :&gt; - &gt; &lt; + @ / ; | . ~ ! ? * ^ % &apos;</keywords>
            <Keywords name="Operators2"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code1, open"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code1, middle"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code1, close"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code2, open"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code2, middle"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in code2, close"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in comment, open"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in comment, middle"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Folders in comment, close"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords1"></keywords>    <!-- Do NOT forget to insert ALL the appropriate keywords -->
            <Keywords name="Keywords2"></keywords>    <!-- Do NOT forget to insert ALL the appropriate keywords -->
            <Keywords name="Keywords3"></keywords>    <!-- Do NOT forget to insert ALL the appropriate keywords -->
            <Keywords name="Keywords4">#</keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords5">:</keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords6">::</keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords7"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Keywords8"></keywords>
            <Keywords name="Delimiters">00&quot; 01 02&quot; 03(* 04 05*) 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23</keywords>
        </KeywordLists>
        <Styles>
            <WordsStyle name="DEFAULT" fgColor="0000A0" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="COMMENTS" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="LINE COMMENTS" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="NUMBERS" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS1" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS2" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS3" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS4" fgColor="008000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS5" fgColor="008000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS6" fgColor="808080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS7" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS8" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="OPERATORS" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN CODE1" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN CODE2" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN COMMENT" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS1" fgColor="808080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS2" fgColor="808080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS3" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS4" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS5" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS6" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS7" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS8" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0"/>
        </Styles>
    </UserLang>
</NotepadPlus>
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Note that since I do not know the Mathematica language and I do not have any appropriate source text, I did not go any further to test this UDL language !

Best Regards,

guy038

guy038 · Nov 5, 2019, 9:40 PM

Hi, @fraw-farewell, @peterjones,

Actually, I did a simple test :

First, I slightly changed the fgColor of these 3 sections below :

            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS1" fgColor="0000ff" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS2" fgColor="00ff00" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS3" fgColor="ff0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0"/>

Then I re-started N++
I opened a new file
I selected the Mathematica UDL language
I pasted the last keyword of the Keywords1, Keywords2 and Keywords3 sections. So, the text :

GeneratedParameters

PointSize

$VersionNumber

And, as expected, these 3 commands, were highlighted in blue, green and red colors ;-))

Cheers,

guy038