Styles for *.java language (android studio)
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What styles should be added to the java language, so that it appears with the same colors as in Android Studio programming?
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@socu ,
We in the Notepad++ Community Forum are experts at Notepad++; that doesn’t mean that we also know anything about Android Studio. I have no idea what styles Android Studio uses.
Notepad++ has the following in Settings > Style Configurator > Java:
And here are examples of how it styles many of them (sorry, I don’t know Java, and don’t know how to include syntax that will show all the STYLES that Notepad++ defines for Java):
You may or may not be able to adjust the colors in the Style Configurator to match what you remember from Android Studio.
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Thanks PeterJones, what happens is that in the style configurator there are options that are not there, I do not know if you could add more styling options, such as putting color to the variables.
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@socu ,
The languages in the style configurator have their definitions (“lexers”) compiled into the Notepad++ applications, so you cannot add a new category (“style”) using a config file. So you cannot tell a lexer “here’s a brand new rule for syntax; highlight that differently than anything else you already do”.
However, you can add extra highlighting on top of (in addition to) a built-in lexer using regexes via the PythonScript plugin in conjunction with the script
EnhanceAnyLexer.pythat @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo . Install the Python Script plugin from Plugins > Plugins Admin, then download and save Ekopalypse’s script, and modify it per the instructions embedded in that script to apply it to your specific language, and derive a regex that would match the syntax you’d like.(However, I thought in java that variables were just plaintext sequences; you might be able to get away with just changing the style for DEFAULT, because as far as I can think of, anything that isn’t already defined as a keyword would be a variable or user-defined function. But I am not a Java expert, so maybe I’m not thinking of some obvious exception and what I’m saying is completely wrong and should be ignored.)
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This is just to let everyone know that there is a [dedicated plugin] (https://github.com/Ekopalypse/EnhanceAnyLexer/releases) available.
The advantage is that it should be faster than the PS solution, but it also has the disadvantage that it cannot handle sub-matches. -
Hi, @ekopalypse,
Just a small detail : in order to get the default correct syntax of links, of our forum, you should delete the
spacechar between[dedicated plugin]and the link within parentheses !BR
guy038
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Yes, I know, and I usually do, but for whatever reason I added this space this time. And worse, I didn’t realise it when I posted it.
