How to change default Powershell language so "$" is Green

Cooly0

I thought it would be a more clean if the dollar sign used for variables would be green to more easily see them in script.

I just tried looking at the Npp User defined list collection, and tried out that one out, but no green $ , and I also just wish I could mode the default powershell to make it more intuitive in the NPP language menu.

Thank You

Mark Olson

@Cooly0
If your goal is to only color the $ itself green and not the rest of the variable, I’d recommend using the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin.

Just use

[powershell]
; $ in variable names is green
0x00c300 = \$(?=\w)
; just comment out, seems to work best for non-UDLs
; excluded_styles = 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,13,14,15,16

in %AppData%\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\Config\EnhanceAnyLexer\EnhanceAnyLexerConfig.ini
Result:

Unfortunately, this doesn’t colorize $ inside of quoted regions. This is outside the scope of EnhanceAnyLexer, it would seem.

guy038

Hello, @cooly0, @mark-olson and All,

@mark-olson, from your picture, the first $ sign, in the part between quotes :

del "$($vsTemplatepath)\nppplugin*.zip"

Is not colored in green. This is quite normal as your regex is \$(?=\w). I suppose that the correct regex should be, in this case, \$(?=[\w(])

So, it’s not a limitation of the @Ekopalypse’s plugin !!

Best Regards,

guy038