After TAB scriptblock error

Venus642

Hi all.
I have a simple question:

Example:

What can you do if you want to use the TAB to indent the code?
Thanks for yur help.

Alan Kilborn

Well you would go to the Settings menu and choose Preferences… and then see:

And you would change the setting for the language of interest (maybe what you show is Perl?).

mpheath

@venus642

Looks to be the Powershell language.

Quote from Microsofts Powershell about_Quoting_Rules documentation on Here-strings.

In either format, the closing quotation mark must be the first character in the line.

So it appears that "@ needs to be at the start of the line to be valid syntax.

Powershell Here-strings are not designed for indenting. So you may need to break the implied rule of indenting by:

function test1
{
$test = @"
This is a test
"@
}

	function test2
	{
	$test = @"
This is a test
"@
	}

Looks ugly though it is valid syntax.

Venus642

@mpheath said in After TAB scriptblock error:

Looks to be the Powershell language.
Quote from Microsofts Powershell about_Quoting_Rules documentation on Here-strings.

In either format, the closing quotation mark must be the first character in the line.

So it appears that "@ needs to be at the start of the line to be valid syntax.
Powershell Here-strings are not designed for indenting. So you may need to break the implied rule of indenting by:

Yes, powershell problem…
Yes ugly, I would like it to be fully indented…

Venus642

@venus642

Not so nice …

Venus642

@venus642

It would be nice if Notepad++ could handle that.

mpheath

@venus642 said in After TAB scriptblock error:

@venus642

It would be nice if Notepad++ could handle that.

It is Powershell syntax. Notepad++ cannot do anything about how Powershell works.

The Lexilla component code is:

		} else if (sc.state == SCE_POWERSHELL_HERE_STRING) {
			// This is a doubles quotes here-string
			if (sc.atLineStart && sc.ch == '\"' && sc.chNext == '@') {
				sc.Forward(2);
				sc.SetState(SCE_POWERSHELL_DEFAULT);
			}

sc.atLineStart is a condition to close the Here-string, it must be at the start of the line. It complies with the current syntax of Powershell.

If you want change to support indentation of Here-strings, then Powershell core development is where the change needs to done.

Venus642

@mpheath
Thanks mpheath for your help and info.

Venus642

@venus642

WARNING !
Had to realize that errors can occur when indenting. So it’s best to avoid it.