Help with specifying a new UDL
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I have some java debugging that looks like this:
And I’d like it to look like this:
I’ve looked at creating a new UDL but it’s not quite made the connection in my mind. If anyone has a link to something similar that I could base this on that would be appreciated.
Or any other help - this is basically just a formatting issue, there are no real keywords to find/highlight/etc.
Your thoughts are very much appreciated.
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UDLs are for syntax highlighting (defining keywords, and having Notepad++ show the text in different colors depending on those keywords and the styler settings).
The change you showed was more of a “pretty print” feature, which doesn’t exist in Notepad++, for any languages. Some languages have plugins which will do a pretty print (such as XML and HTML and JSON). But Notepad++ doesn’t have that feature natively, so Notepad++ has no way to automatically make the transformation for your particular language.
You could try to develop a search-and-replace regular expression that might be able to handle it – but it would be rather complicated (I just spent 5-10 minutes, but couldn’t even come up with a multistep sequence that did something reasonable.)
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@PeterJones Thanks. I looked a JSON and the definition and didn’t see how it would ever do the formatting. Now knowing that it’s a plugin helps give me direction on where I need to investigate next.
Thank you. As you can probably tell this is my first foray into the internals of the editor :) Very much appreciate the assistance.
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@Ken-Weinert said in Help with specifying a new UDL:
Now knowing that it’s a plugin
If it’s JSON you want, there is a JSON pretty-print feature in JSONTools .
Cheers.